From: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: [BUG] Glob handling is brittle
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 06:38:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a07ef77-de18-8966-5f3e-bd544aaaae3f@inlv.org> (raw)
The script below reliably makes zsh hang.
(ksh93 hangs, too. mksh, bash, yash, and ash variants execute it in no
time at all.)
- M.
case '\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' in
( *\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\\
*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\* )
echo ok ;;
esac
next reply other threads:[~2018-11-26 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-26 5:38 Martijn Dekker [this message]
2018-11-27 12:14 ` Jun T
2018-11-27 15:08 ` Peter Stephenson
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