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Re: strcpy of overlapping memory ranges in prompt expansion
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: strcpy of overlapping memory ranges in prompt expansion |
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Thu, 04 Jul 2013 17:48:42 -0400 |
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On 7/3/13 4:06 PM, simon@hitzemann.org wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 45
> Release Status: release
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> Description:
> When using \w in the prompt and changing the directory outside of HOME
> bash crashes with an abort trap.
> strcpy(3) say src and dst must not overlap. OS X 10.9 checks that on
> runtime and forcefully aborts your code if they do.
Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in the next release of bash. If
you choose to use your patch before then, you need to add braces around the
code you added.
Chet
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