Re: Certain unicode in hostname breaks with zsh 4.3.17

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12 March 2012 04:56, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mar 11, 10:28pm, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> }
> } 0x308C0x306B0x306A% echo $HOST
> } zsh: no matches found: \M-c\M-^B|0x306B0x306A
>
> Hm.
>
>    hostnam = (char *)zalloc(256);
>    gethostname(hostnam, 256);
>    setsparam("HOST", ztrdup(hostnam));
>    zfree(hostnam, 256);
>
> Apparently that ztrdup(hostnam) should be a metafy(hostnam, -1, META_DUP).
>
> Should that get done with LOGNAME, MACHTYPE, OSTYPE, and VENDOR as well?
>
> None of that explains the OP's crash, though.  The above code excerpt has
> not changed in at least a dozen years, and he says 4.3.15 did not show a
> problem.

I asked him on irc, and his crash comes from compdump, i think this line,
mv -f $_d_file ${_d_file%.$HOST.$$}
It doesn't crash for me though,
% zsh -f
さわこ% autoload compinit
さわこ% compinit
compdump:135: bad pattern: .\M-c\M-^A?\M-c\M-^B[\M-c\M-^A>.11450
さわこ%

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Mikael Magnusson