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Re: Racing condition leads to unstable exit code
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Racing condition leads to unstable exit code |
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Thu, 29 Sep 2016 15:39:25 -0400 |
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On 9/23/16 3:04 PM, Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca wrote:
> Hello,
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> I'm using 'GNU bash, version 4.3.46(1)-release (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu)'
> provided by OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I recently faced a problem that, depending
> on the system load, bash returns different exit codes. I detected that it
> is related to trap processing.
Thanks for the report. It is related (indirectly) to trap processing in
that traps get processed while reading the command substitution output.
The problem still exists in bash-4.4, and I will probably release a
bash-4.4 patch to address it. There are a few things ahead of that in
the queue, though.
Chet
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/