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From: dana <dana@dana.is>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: [BUG] Redirect between two parameter assignments causes misbehaviour
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 18:19:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86CB677F-70BF-43B2-8F6D-E8F0AC4C43A3@dana.is> (raw)

One more before i forget. Someone found this on IRC today and it puzzled us.

The following command produces no output (and returns with 0):

  % a=b 2> /dev/null c=d env

Doesn't matter what the command at the end is, could be a built-in too.

The documentation seems to suggest that it's valid for redirects to be
interspersed amongst the assignments *as well as* the command arguments, so i
think that should work? If not, the documentation needs clarified.

This is generally what happens to the variables afterwards:

  % a=b 2> /dev/null c=d env; print -r -- ${a:--} ${c:--}
  b -

Though it seems that certain interactions with other code can be quite serious.
If i run this without -f, something in my profile causes this series of commands
to hard-lock zsh with 100% CPU. Entering the first command and then the second
one separately avoids this lock-up. Unfortunately `set -x` didn't reveal
anything and i don't have any more time to look at it today, but i thought i'd
mention it.

dana


             reply	other threads:[~2017-12-11  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20171211001958epcas4p39fe7f2605374e3ea973e19b62beb9a9c@epcas4p3.samsung.com>
2017-12-11  0:19 ` dana [this message]
2017-12-11  1:07   ` Daniel Shahaf
2017-12-11  3:20     ` Daniel Shahaf
2017-12-11 12:01   ` Peter Stephenson
2017-12-11 21:26     ` dana

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