meissner@dg-rtp.dg.com (Michael Meissner) (07/10/89)
I just noticed a new tar (1.02) on prep.ai.mit.edu, and built it locally. It appears that this version of bash has a serious flaw in it. If you type ^D instead of exit or bye, bash will core dump. The reason is readline returns (char *)EOF on end of file (why not (char *)0, which is required to be supported, wheras (char *)-1 is not). The function yy_readline_get does a xrealloc on this pointer. -- Michael Meissner, Data General. Uucp: ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!meissner If compiles were much Internet: meissner@dg-rtp.DG.COM faster, when would we Old Internet: meissner%dg-rtp.DG.COM@relay.cs.net have time for netnews?
jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) (08/28/89)
I have just gotten bash 1.02 compiled on my system. I have a small bug: when typing a ctrl-D bash dies with a "Memory fault - core dump". However, typing exit or bye does work. This is running on an SCO Xenix 2.3.2 system with the 2.3 development system. Please e-mail as my feed for this group is erratic presently. Thanks. JB -- Jonathan Bayer Intelligent Software Products, Inc. (201) 245-5922 500 Oakwood Ave. jbayer@ispi.COM Roselle Park, NJ 07204