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Re: bash -c error


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According to Krzysztof Duleba on 1/10/2006 7:14 AM:
> 
> This was just a minimal test case.
> 
> $ bash -c time ls
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

That is equivalent to 'bash -c time', except that $0 is set to "ls"
instead of "bash" or "time" for the duration of the command (in other
words, the same crash as before, because you invoked time without arguments).

> 
> However,
> 
> $ bash -c 'time ls'

Much better - now you are actually giving time an argument.  Again, in
bash 3.0, you should not use time without a valid argument (at least, not
until I can roll a bash 3.0-15 that works around the coredump).  Or you
could upgrade to bash 3.1 (but remember to also use a current snapshot and
readline 5.1), where the problem has been fixed upstream.

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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