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From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira•uka.de>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>
Cc: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira•uka.de>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff•net>,
	"Sverre Rabbelier" <srabbelier@gmail•com>,
	"Git List" <git@vger•kernel.org>,
	"Shawn O. Pearce" <gsoc@spearce•org>,
	"Stephen Boyd" <bebarino@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Autocompletion fails with "bash: words: bad array subscript"
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 23:09:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110511210941.GC31029@goldbirke> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110510234552.GG1994@elie>

Hi,


On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 06:45:52PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> > So the bug is definitely not git-related.  The fix would be a check
> > along the lines of the first two hunks of the patch I just sent out.
> 
> FWIW it looks like the bash-completion lib adopted a different fix
> recently: see [1] (_init_completion: Indicate that completion should
> not continue if cword == 0, 2011-05-02).
> 
> [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=bash-completion/bash-completion.git;a=commitdiff;h=457dbf6061eea5f2d1e3bccacf1691265f7321cc

That doesn't fix the issue at hand.  _init_completion() invokes
_get_comp_words_by_ref() before that check to set all variables [1],
which will in turn try to access the -1th element of the array when
setting $prev, producing the same error.


Best,
Gábor


[1]: http://git.debian.org/?p=bash-completion/bash-completion.git;a=blob;f=bash_completion;h=e88e2fc8cd97f2a43173b45a1448451bb53e55ab;hb=457dbf6061eea5f2d1e3bccacf1691265f7321cc#l708

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-11 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-10 20:13 [BUG] Autocompletion fails with "bash: words: bad array subscript" Sverre Rabbelier
2011-05-10 20:31 ` Jeff King
2011-05-10 20:39   ` Jeff King
2011-05-10 20:47     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-05-10 21:01       ` Jeff King
2011-05-10 21:02         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-05-10 21:10           ` Jeff King
2011-05-10 22:39             ` SZEDER Gábor
2011-05-10 23:45               ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-11 21:09                 ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2011-05-10 22:14 ` [PATCH] completion: fix array indexing error after reverse history search SZEDER Gábor
2011-05-10 22:19   ` Sverre Rabbelier

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