Re: Bash-4.3 Official Patch 30

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/6/14, 6:16 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:

>>> Do you mean return ""; ?
>>
>> Yes, good catch.  It doesn't make a difference: clang and gcc both accept
>> it as written and it behaves as desired.  However, I'll change it for the
>> next version.
> 
> Changing it to return 0 instead of '\0' would probably be more clear.
> No need to return a pointer to a static empty string.

It depends on how you want the function to work.  It is nice to
differentiate between the cases where there is no shell input line
at all, where the index is just wrong, and the actual current input
pointer.  A "" indicates the second case better than a 0, though it's
not perfect.

Chet


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