Re: Bash-5.2 Release available

[Corey Hickey]

On 2022-11-01 08:56, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 10/31/22 6:00 PM, Corey Hickey wrote:
>
> > I was experimenting with this and trying to understand the extent of
> > code execution within arithmetic evaluation, and what are safe ways to
> > prevent it, based on:
> >
> > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/627474/how-to-use-associative-arrays-safely-inside-arithmetic-expressions
>
> There was a pretty extensive discussion of the issue, including what I
> eventually put into bash-5.2, last March:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2021-03/msg00056.html
>
> and extending into April:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2021-04/msg00008.html
>
> The changes are broad.

Thanks. I read through all that and I admit I don't understand all the 
discussion, but that's ok--I understand that parts that matter to me now.

I see that your fix is now in git, and that tests ok for me as well.

For what I do and understand, the current behavior makes more sense to 
me than that of bash 5.1 and earlier.

Thanks again,
Corey