Bug in bash 3.00.16 ?

[devzero]

Hello !
For some time now, I had a problem which I thought oracle was the reason for.

Now I found, that it seems to be a Bash problem.

I'm using   GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i586-suse-linux) on SuSE 9.3

This is the "buggy behaviour":

Whenever I "su - oracle" into the oracle account, the .profile executes a tiny 
oracle helper script "oraenv" to determine/set the oracle environment.
After logging in and choosing the Database SID, whenever I use tab-completion 
"as usual" (cd /long[tab]directory[tab]path) - the current bash i'm "in" dumps 
core and the terminal is messed up. I need to issue a reset inside the terminal 
and find myself back at the root prompt.

I tracked this "problem" down to a line in /etc/profile.d/complete.bash

function _cd_ ()
{

---snippp---- 
--removed some lines-
---snippp---- 

# Replace spaces in path names with `\ '
for x in ${COMPREPLY[@]} ; do
C=(${C[@]} ${x// /\\ })
done
COMPREPLY=(${C[@]})   

test $g -eq 0 && shopt -u extglob
}


If i comment out "COMPREPLY=(${C[@]})" and login again, the problem goes away.

I didn't have time, what part of oraenv script triggers this bug and I don`t 
know, if I should blame oracle, SuSE folks or bash developers, but I think I 
get a competent answer here and some advice, what's going wrong here.

For me, this looks like a bug in bash or probably "not so well handled" bash 
configuration in complete.bash - normally I see oracle being blamed for 
problems :D

Could someone give a comment about this or give an advice, what to do next to 
resolve this bug? (commenting out that line is just a "woraround")

regards
Roland K.
Sysadmin

ps:
please also reply directly to my email address.


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