Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!SHIRE.CS.PSU.EDU!schwartz From: schwartz@SHIRE.CS.PSU.EDU (Scott Schwartz) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: backquote dumps core on eof (bash-1.02) Message-ID: <8908210239.AA20448@shire.cs.psu.edu> Date: 21 Aug 89 02:39:04 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 13 psuvax1$ . .profile ` > # typed ctrl-D here Unexpected EOF. Looking for ``'. Segmentation fault (core dumped) It dies in yy_readline_get: parse.y near line 440: ``if (!current_readline_line[current_readline_line_index])'' No check is made that current_readline_line isn't EOF. Should this be checked for on entry to yy_readline_get? -- Scott