andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas) (11/10/89)
Running Ultrix 2.0 on a uVaxII
I have installed bash 1.04 and have noticed a case where bash will
segmentation fault. I cannot debug it because it seems to want to
transfer control outside of the program segment so the debugger gets
confused. I can reproduce this every time by doing the following:
bash$ function blab () { while (1) ; do echo hi ; done ; }
bash$ blab
<now press ^C before it finds the non-existent command 1>
segmentation fault
I have observed that bash will always crash if I interrupt a shell
function while it is executing or searching for an external command.
(to the best of my knowledge).
Hope this helps.
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Andrew Thomas
andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu Systems Design Eng. University of Waterloo
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