Re: IFS=$'\xb2'

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Xavier Kerestesy wrote:

> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 11:37:59 -0700
> From: Xavier Kerestesy <xavier@kerestesy.com>
> To: bug-bash@gnu.org
> Subject: IFS=$'\xb2'
>
> Good day, we have tried the following command "IFS='?';" (ascii translated 
> "0xb2") on 3 systems, Fedora, Ubuntu, and RH AS3. The code causes Seg Faults 
> on Fedora and Ubuntu, but seems to works on RH AS3.  We also tried 
> "IFS=$'\xb2' ;" with the same results.
>
> The only thing I can see is that RH3 uses Bash 2.05 while Fedora and Ubuntu 
> use Bash 3.0.  I have uploaded the commands in a script to make it easier. 
> http://www.mainstreamgaming.com/ciscocmd.tgz.  This issue is easy to 
> reproduce, as I had several people in irc trying to help me.  This apparently 
> is a seperator sequence from Cisco routers.

     I cannot reproduce this bug in 3.00.16(1)-release. I am using
     Mandrive LE2005, but I compiled my own bash.

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