Bash-3.1 Official Patch 16

[Chet Ramey]

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

Bash-Release: 3.1
Patch-ID: bash31-016

Bug-Reported-by: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
Bug-Reference-ID: <17397.51015.769854.541057@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
Bug-Reference-URL: 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2006-02/msg00064.html

Bug-Description:

Bash will dump core when attempting to perform globbing in directories with
very large numbers of files.

Patch:

*** ../bash-3.1-patched/lib/glob/glob.c Thu Mar 24 12:42:27 2005
--- lib/glob/glob.c     Fri Mar  3 16:54:12 2006
***************
*** 361,364 ****
--- 361,365 ----
  
    firstmalloc = 0;
+   nalloca = 0;
  
    /* If PAT is empty, skip the loop, but return one (empty) filename. */
***************
*** 547,550 ****
--- 551,556 ----
              tmplink = lastlink;
            }
+         else
+           tmplink = 0;
          free (lastlink->name);
          lastlink = lastlink->next;
*** ../bash-3.1/patchlevel.h    Wed Jul 20 13:58:20 2005
--- patchlevel.h        Wed Dec  7 13:48:42 2005
***************
*** 26,30 ****
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 15
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
--- 26,30 ----
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 16
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */

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