Re: Bash-5.2 Release available

[Chet Ramey]

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.

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