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Re: [PATCH] Fix hang if $OLDPWD points to inaccessible directory
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [PATCH] Fix hang if $OLDPWD points to inaccessible directory |
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Thu, 28 Sep 2017 11:35:24 -0400 |
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On 9/28/17 11:14 AM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> This patch would revert the change introduced in:
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> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/?h=devel&id=e6f5e0c858b7c0839d346d7d55e56894648c5a33
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> Which was prompted by the following bug report from John Wiersba:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2015-11/msg00115.html
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> Correct me if I'm wrong, but a hanged sshfs mount will cause many more
> issues, not only with OLDPWD.
This is all correct. The change was introduced for a reason, and
accommodating a rare occurrence by backing it out would be non-
productive.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
Re: [PATCH] Fix hang if $OLDPWD points to inaccessible directory, Mikulas Patocka, 2017/09/29