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Crash bug in typeset -T
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- From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Subject: Crash bug in typeset -T
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:37:40 -0800
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torch% typeset -T FOO foo
torch% typeset -p FOO foo
typeset FOO=''
typeset -a foo
foo=()
So far, so good. Now:
torch% typeset -T FOO bar
torch% typeset -p FOO foo bar
typeset FOO=''
typeset -a foo
foo=('')
typeset -a bar
bar=()
Curious, look what happened to $foo. Now:
torch% unset FOO
torch% typeset -p FOO foo bar
typeset: no such variable: FOO
typeset: no such variable: bar
typeset -a foo
foo=()
torch% foo=(x y z)
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) Src/zsh -f
Similar things happen if you unset the array instead of the scalar:
torch% typeset -T FOO foo
torch% typeset -T FOO bar
torch% unset foo
torch% typeset -p FOO foo bar
typeset: no such variable: FOO
typeset: no such variable: foo
typeset -a bar
bar=()
torch% bar=(x y z)
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) Src/zsh -f
This also happens if you unset bar and then assign to foo. (What I was
looking for when I found this, was a way to untie FOO from foo without
unsetting both of them.) Related oddness:
torch% typeset -T FOO foo
torch% typeset -T FOO=x:y:z bar
torch% typeset -p FOO foo bar
typeset FOO=x:y:z
typeset -a foo
foo=(x y z)
typeset -a bar
bar=()
Note that foo got the value assigned to FOO, bar did not. If FOO and foo
were not already tied, bar would have had the value. Yet:
torch% unset bar
torch% typeset -p FOO foo bar
typeset: no such variable: FOO
typeset: no such variable: bar
typeset -a foo
foo=()
Obviously "typeset -T" needs to check if it's being applied to a parameter
that's already tied ... but what should it do in that case? Error? Unset
and then re-tie? There is precedent for the latter - a change of type of
either variable in the tied pair, unsets the other:
torch% typeset -T FOO=1 foo
torch% typeset -i FOO
torch% typeset -p FOO foo
typeset: no such variable: foo
typeset -i FOO=1
Of course what I was hoping was that "typeset +T" would disentangle the
variables yet leave them independently set, but:
torch% typeset +T FOO
typeset: use unset to remove tied variables
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