Re: forwarded bug report

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>]

On May 31,  3:12pm, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
} Subject: Re: forwarded bug report
} 
} Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote:
} >   compctl -s "\$(cat [tT]his-file-does-not-exist)" foo
} 
} When expanding the -s-string, we explicitly switch NULL_GLOB on so
} that `compctl -s "*.c \$(< foo)"' works without producing an error if
} there is no `*.c'.

That's not the only reason, is it?  We want the list of completion matches
to be empty when the glob pattern fails; if the only concern was for the
error, we could use NO_NOMATCH instead.

} Of course, this makes it fail in cases like the one above... (where
} the cat tries to start reading and never finishes).
} 
} Does anyone have an idea how we could make this safe?

Seems as if we need a variant of NULL_GLOB that actually replaces the
unmatched patterns with empty strings, rather than deleting them from the
command entirely.

On May 31, 11:38pm, Tanaka Akira wrote:
} Subject: Re: forwarded bug report
}
} I think that zsh can prevents hanging by redirecting stdin to /dev/null.

That's probably a good idea, but it doesn't solve the more general problem
of commands being invoked with a different-than-expected number of args.

(Providing a closed stdin as if <&- might be a better idea for most cases,
though it causes "cat" to complain about bad file descriptors.)

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