SDP-168
Closed
Work around RHEL/CentOS 7 command completion issue.
There is a known issue with 'set -u' in CentOS 7
interfering with command line completion in interactive
shells. It goes totally bonkers when you try a tab
completion. We use 'set -u' as a good programming
practice; it declares bash variables to be declared
before being referenced. But it's not really needed
in interactive shells. It's not an issue in CentOS 6.
I was hoping this would get fixed in RHEL/CentOS, but
it's not as of CentOS 7.3.
One workaround would be to remove 'set -u' from p4_vars,
and instead set it in all scripts instead. That way
it is always set for programming, and not set when
p4_vars is sourced for human interactive use.
There is a known issue with 'set -u' in CentOS 7
interfering with command line completion in interactive
shells. It goes totally bonkers when you try a tab
completion. We use 'set -u' as a good programming
practice; it declares bash variables to be declared
before being referenced. But it's not really needed
in interactive shells. It's not an issue in CentOS 6.
I was hoping this would get fixed in RHEL/CentOS, but
it's not as of CentOS 7.3.
One workaround would be to remove 'set -u' from p4_vars,
and instead set it in all scripts instead. That way
it is always set for programming, and not set when
p4_vars is sourced for human interactive use.
- Status
- Closed
- Project
- perforce-software-sdp
- Severity
- C
- Reported By
- C. Thomas Tyler
- Reported Date
- Modified By
- super-tom_tyler
- Modified Date
- Owned By
- tom_tyler
- Dev Notes
- This job, SDP-168, was originally named job000671.
- Type
- Feature