Re: Corrupted multibyte characters in command substitutions

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/7/22 7:21 PM, Ángel wrote:

> When you mentioned the environment in the previous mail I thought in
> the environment block (which you reset with env -i). As for the
> environment in general, yes, apparently there are more things that
> cause it to be even more random.

The buffer is an auto variable (function local) created on the stack. It
seems to me that the value of the variable adjacent to it on the stack
(`adjacent' is compiler and system dependent) can determine whether or not
that next byte following the buffer affects the mbrtowc() result.

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