Re: zsh 4.3.11 regexp-related crash

[Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:47:35 +0000
Nix <nix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is a regression in 4.3.11, not seen in 4.3.10.
> 
> The following script:
> 
> ,----
> | #!/bin/zsh
> | 
> | cat /etc/passwd | while read A; do
> | 
> |     if [[ $A =~ ":audio:" ]]; then
> |         FBAR="foo"
> |     fi
> | done
> `----
> 
> dumps core:

Thanks, that's already fixed in the patch zsh-workers/28588.  The
problem was that the "=~" expression caused the code that turns the
internally representation back into text associated with the job to lose
its position.

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