Re: bash 5.2 and BASH_COMPAT question

2023-09-19 Thread David C. Rankin
On 9/17/23 07:45, Genes Lists wrote:  - what else needs to be done to allow us to update to 5.2 Thoughts? Sorry, Disregard the last post. The linked document appears to be a compendium of all bash compatibility changes, not just new compatibility issues for 5.2. The one referenced in my

Re: bash 5.2 and BASH_COMPAT question

2023-09-19 Thread David C. Rankin
On 9/17/23 07:45, Genes Lists wrote:  - what else needs to be done to allow us to update to 5.2 Thoughts? Hmm, This could be bad, or I'm reading it wrong, but https://github.com/bminor/bash/blob/ec8113b9861375e4e17b3307372569d429dec814/COMPAT#L44 says "The 'list' that composes the body

bash 5.2 and BASH_COMPAT question

2023-09-17 Thread Genes Lists
Hi: I believe that bash 5.2 was/is held back due to incompatible Changes with 5.1 [1]. The obvious first thought would be to set BASH_COMPAT="5.1" globally and then update to the current 5.2 version. This would work for any shell which sees the BASH_COMPAT variable. User login shells,