From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17001 invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2013 23:04:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 31270 Received: (qmail 12325 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2013 23:04:10 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at bewatermyfriend.org does not designate permitted sender hosts) From: Frank Terbeck To: Nicholas Riley Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org Subject: Re: compctl crash In-Reply-To: (Nicholas Riley's message of "Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:01:32 -0500") References: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:03:32 +0200 Message-ID: <87obdb786z.fsf@ft.bewatermyfriend.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Df-Sender: [pbs]MzQ5NTM4 Nicholas Riley wrote: > I misunderstood the documentation for compctl, so I tried this: > > compctl + > > This crashes zsh back to at least 4.3.9 and up to the current version in > Git. I tried 4.3.10 and a git build that's a few days old, but I could not reproduce the problem. > I had thought it would reset all the compctl-defined completions. Note, that compctl is the older of the two completion systems, that zsh implements. The newer - compsys - is the one almost everybody uses (unless they still get that trusty old i386SX-16 another go every once in a while...). > glibc logs something of the form: > > *** glibc detected *** zsh: double free or corruption (!prev): > 0x09b89ca8 *** Do you get a coredump? If so, could you load it into gdb and get a backtrace? Regards, Frank -- In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- RFC 1925