Re: Seg fault on "echo ~nosuchuser"

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/29/20 2:50 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:

>> Can you try this with the current devel branch head from savannah? I
>> have a suspicion about what's going on.
>>
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/snapshot/bash-devel.tar.gz
> 
> This did not reproduce the bug.
> 
> $ ./bash --version
> GNU bash, version 5.1.0(1)-alpha (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
> Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> 
> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> $ ./bash -c 'echo ~nosuchuser'
> ~nosuchuser
> $

OK, that's half of it.

If you have a chance, can you verify that the problem exists with the
bash-20200520 push?

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/snapshot/bash-ce1a3c07c4e17ed176edccd75892dfcf8242de60.tar.gz

Thanks.

Chet

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