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Re: Should this be this way?


From: Linda Walsh
Subject: Re: Should this be this way?
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:04:24 -0800
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Chet Ramey wrote:
> Your vendor, which may be SuSE, has changed bash and shipped the modified
> version.
----
Supposedly this has to do with memory corruption problems in
4.2 and the "possibility" that it might come back...

Is this likely to be a problem?


Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> The patch belongs to memory corruption
> ahd happen with several bug reports like:
> 
>    http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=382214
>    http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=384175
> 
> that is that after the siglongjmp() the bash had showed memory corruption.
> This seems to be fixed in bash 4.2 ... nevertheless it could come back
> again as memory management together with setjmp()/longjmp() or
> sigsetjmp()/siglongjmp() has to managed thorough to not run into the
> same problems as in the bugs above.
> 
> This is the only reason why this patch is still alive.  And yes I've read
> the thread http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-bash@gnu.org/msg12269.html



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