RE: Minor problems with bash-3.2-33.el5_11.4

[Tajthy, Tamas]

Dear Chet,

Thanks for your kind answer! Then I'm going to try to open these bugs for 
RedHat and Debian.

Good byte! Tamás

-----Original Message-----
From: Chet Ramey [mailto:chet.ramey@case.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 1:52 PM
To: Tajthy, Tamas; bug-bash@gnu.org
Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu
Subject: Re: Minor problems with bash-3.2-33.el5_11.4

On 10/6/14, 4:04 AM, Tajthy, Tamas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a minor issue with the newest bash-3.2-33.el5_11.4 (RedHat) package. 
> Same happens on Debian Wheezy (unfortunately I do not know that version 
> number now).
>
> I usually define in my .bash_profile some functions called "..", "...", 
> "...." and so on. After the latest  package was installed I continuously get 
> error messages shown above when I start a (sub-)bash from the login bash:
>
> bash: error importing function definition for `BASH_FUNC_..'
> bash: error importing function definition for `BASH_FUNC_...'
> bash: error importing function definition for `BASH_FUNC_....'
>
> etc...  And these functions cannot be used in the child bash. But no problem 
> is shown when bash is a login shell (called as "bash -l") and the definition 
> is read from the .bash_profile.

You should open a bug report with Red Hat and Debian.  They used a stricter 
version of the patches that result in bash refusing to import shell functions 
whose names are not valid shell identifiers.  The official patches I released, 
while imposing this requirement early (bash32-052), allow names that are not 
valid identifiers when the shell is not running in Posix mode (as of 
bash32-054).

Chet
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