Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!zmacx07 From: zmacx07@doc.ic.ac.uk (Simon E Spero) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Trival bug in arg parsing Message-ID: Date: 18 Jul 89 07:59:53 GMT Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Distribution: gnu Organization: The Society of the Department of Computing, Imperial College Lines: 14 In file shell.c, when bash is called with 'bash -c' argv[++arg_index] is dereferenced before being checked for existence. This causes a core dump if no arg follows. Simon -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MAC-FREE | My Opinons are precisely that | "We Don't take no sh*t from a ZONE | No Liability accepted | machine"- Moontrap ------------------------------------------------------------------------------