Bash 3.1.17(9) $@ Expansion error

[Mark Fortescue]

Hi Eric,

The mensioned problems are unique to cygwin. The $@ expansion error is not 
present in cygwin bash-3.0-14.tar.bz2

For re-preduction, see the Nov 6th email. The error prevents the 
CSSC-1.0.1 test suite from operating. On Linux, it runs through without 
any failures. Using bash-2.05 and bash-3.0-14, it gets to the -y admin 
flag tests before failing.

The memory issues are reported by a windows popup reporting that 
application sh.exe has tried to write to memory that it is not alowd to. 
It gives the instruction address and the memory address but I did not make 
a note of them as I was trying to prepare a system to alow me to do some 
work on somthing else. The system is an Intel system with WinXP Home. On 
my now defunct AMD XP Pro system, I had a number of sudden blue screens 
where I was unable to read any details before automatic reboot, that only 
occoured when using bash scripts under cygwin. The blue screens may just 
have been a coincidence as the IDE chip died. Having un-installed cygwin 
and gone back to a Feb 2005 release (bash 2.05) the issue is nolonger 
present. When I have the time, I will upgrade bash on its own to 3.0-14 
and redo the test to see if it is a cygwin bash-3 issue or a cygwin core 
system error. If it is, I will note the details and pass them on.

The un-expected termination has no error messages, stack dumps or anything 
that I am aware of to aid in fault location/identification. It has only 
occoured when I have used bash in cygwin releases post November 6th. The 
issue has occoured on both the WinXP Pro and WinXP home systems.

Regards
 	Mark Fortescue.


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