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Re: 3-lines long segfault
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: 3-lines long segfault |
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Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:18:00 -0400 |
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Marc Herbert wrote:
> - removing the "-t" option from "read" dodges the immediate crash, but
> not the memory corruption? So bash might still crash later?
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> - in other words, triggering a trap from a command expansion will
> always corrupt memory? (I mean: without your recent fix)
It is the specific combination of the assignment statement whose rhs
contains a command substitution which causes a trap to be executed
by the parent shell.
Chet
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