Re: Bash 4.2 completion fails with failglob option enabled

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/15/13 1:02 PM, Andrey Osipov wrote:
> Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> writes:
> 
>> On 2013-10-04 09:35, Chet Ramey wrote:
>>> On 10/4/13 3:32 AM, Chris Down wrote:
>>>> On 2013-10-02 16:33, Andrey Osipov wrote:
>>>>> Is failglob meant to be used in interactive shell?
>>>>
>>>> Basically, you can't use it right now if you are using completions that 
>>>> could
>>>> return empty globs.
>>>
>>> This just means that completions have failed to take empty globs into
>>> account, not that failglob is behaving in an unintended way.
>>
>> Right, but sadly most modules from bash-completion don't.
> 
> That option hadn't failed the completion with bash 3.2 and even with 4.1
> In bash 4.2 completion and failglob stoped working toghether. I believe
> it's a bug.

If you believe it's a bug in bash, please supply me with an example that
doesn't rely on bash-completion that I can use to reproduce it.  Thanks.

Chet

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