Re: bash - reproducible SEGFAULT on rapid SIGINTs

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/28/24 7:16 AM, Tycho Kirchner wrote:
> Hi,
> Sending rapid SIGINTs from another shell quickly results in a SEGFAULT of 
> the bash instance receiving them. Steps to reproduce:
> * Open up a shell SHELL_1 and record its pid, e.g. "echo $$"
> * Launch another shell and send rapid SIGINTs: while true ; do kill -INT 
> OTHER_PID; done
>
> SHELL_1 quickly dies with a SEGAULT
>
> Tested on GNU bash, version 5.2.32(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), 
> compiled via plain ./configure && make

I can't reproduce this with the current devel branch on RHEL 9. I let it
go for a few minutes without any crash.

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