From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: rcexpandparam bug
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 18:04:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199710021604.SAA01708@hydra.ifh.de> (raw)
I've localised the rcexpandparam bug; unfortunately it's in the
paramsubst() code where I don't know what anything means.
In the long `if (isarr)' chunk, right at the start there is a test
for no array value being set, with plan9 (rcexpandparam) not in
operation. If that is true, something mysterious happens anyway and
non-null (whatever `n' is) is passed back. If plan9 is set, there's a
chunk later on which handles that: lots and lots of mysterious things
happen, until at the end there is another `if plan9' test to see if it
hasn't been unset: this two line chunk then returns null. That's
causing the problem: this gets passed back by stringsubst() to
prefork(), causing the latter to abort all further processing. The
result is that in things like `=ls $*', the =ls doesn't get expanded
if $* was null and rcexpandparam was set. I have no idea what to do
about it.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de> Tel: +49 33762 77366
WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Fax: +49 33762 77413
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron --- Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik Zeuthen
DESY-IfH, Platanenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany.
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