Re: Certain unicode in hostname breaks with zsh 4.3.17

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12 March 2012 11:56, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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%

Apparently he can't reproduce the crash anymore, only the bad pattern message.

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Mikael Magnusson