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From: meissner@dg-rtp.dg.com (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Bug in bash 1.02
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Date: 10 Jul 89 13:06:14 GMT
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Reply-To: meissner@dg-rtp.dg.com (Michael Meissner)
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Organization: Data General (Languages @ Research Triangle Park, NC.)
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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.
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