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Re: BASH 4.2.45(2)-release crashes on Mac OS X 10.9.1 if PS1 contains \w


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: BASH 4.2.45(2)-release crashes on Mac OS X 10.9.1 if PS1 contains \w
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:00:08 -0500
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On 2/24/14 1:47 PM, Mario Grgic wrote:
> BASH 4.2 with patches 1-45 applied still crashes on Mac OS X 10.9.1 if PS1 
> contains \w (in my case PS1="\[\033]0;address@hidden :: \w\007\]$” ).
> 
> Interestingly enough if I apply patch from 
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2013-07/msg00011.html 
> 
> to BASH 4.2 (without any other patches applied), the crash goes away. 

As I said in the follow-up to the message you cited, this is fixed in
bash-4.3 (and the included patch is slightly incorrect).

Chet
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