[Bash-announce] Bash-3.2 Official Patch 21

[Chet Ramey]

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

Bash-Release: 3.2
Patch-ID: bash32-021

Bug-Reported-by:        BAGSHAW Paul RD-TECH-REN <address@hidden>
Bug-Reference-ID:       <address@hidden>
Bug-Reference-URL:      
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2007-03/msg00065.html

Bug-Description:

When the parser read a backslash-escaped character that would be treated
internally as an escape, it would double the number of escape characters.

Patch:

*** ../bash-3.2-patched/parse.y Mon Oct 30 17:22:00 2006
--- parse.y     Sat Mar 24 17:13:20 2007
***************
*** 3377,3381 ****
        {
          pass_next_character = 0;
!         goto got_character;
        }
  
--- 3377,3381 ----
        {
          pass_next_character = 0;
!         goto got_escaped_character;
        }
  
***************
*** 3651,3660 ****
      got_character:
  
-       all_digit_token &= DIGIT (character);
-       dollar_present |= character == '$';
- 
        if (character == CTLESC || character == CTLNUL)
        token[token_index++] = CTLESC;
  
        token[token_index++] = character;
  
--- 3651,3662 ----
      got_character:
  
        if (character == CTLESC || character == CTLNUL)
        token[token_index++] = CTLESC;
  
+     got_escaped_character:
+ 
+       all_digit_token &= DIGIT (character);
+       dollar_present |= character == '$';
+ 
        token[token_index++] = character;
  
*** ../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 20
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
--- 26,30 ----
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 21
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */

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