Bash-3.2 Official Patch 36

[Chet Ramey]

                             BASH PATCH REPORT
                             =================

Bash-Release: 3.2
Patch-ID: bash32-036

Bug-Reported-by:        Len Lattanzi <llattanzi@apple.com>
Bug-Reference-ID:       <87493131-7AEC-4301-A684-E6CC6D06E3E1@apple.com>
Bug-Reference-URL:

Bug-Description:

When initializing a subshell, bash did not reset a sentinel keeping track
of the number of command substitutions, leading to an infinite loop if
an error was encountered in the subshell.

Patch:

*** ../bash-3.2-patched/execute_cmd.c   2007-12-13 22:31:14.000000000 -0500
--- execute_cmd.c       2007-12-20 08:52:34.000000000 -0500
***************
*** 3881,3884 ****
--- 3916,3921 ----
  
    clear_unwind_protect_list (0);
+   /* XXX -- are there other things we should be resetting here? */
+   parse_and_execute_level = 0;                /* nothing left to restore it */
  
    /* We're no longer inside a shell function. */
*** ../bash-3.2/patchlevel.h    Thu Apr 13 08:31:04 2006
--- patchlevel.h        Mon Oct 16 14:22:54 2006
***************
*** 26,30 ****
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 35
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
--- 26,30 ----
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 36
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/