Bash-4.1 Official Patch 9

[Chet Ramey]

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

Bash-Release:   4.1
Patch-ID:       bash41-009

Bug-Reported-by:        Tomas Trnka <tomastrnka@gmx.com>
Bug-Reference-ID:       <201003242030.02166.tomastrnka@gmx.com>
Bug-Reference-URL:      
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2010-03/msg00090.html

Bug-Description:

An arriving SIGCHLD will interrupt `slow' system calls such as write(2) to
or read(2) from a terminal.  This results in an error message and truncated
input or output.

Patch (apply with `patch -p0'):

*** ../bash-4.1-patched/sig.c   Fri Aug 14 16:31:52 2009
--- sig.c       Fri Mar 26 22:34:11 2010
***************
*** 655,660 ****
--- 655,663 ----
      act.sa_flags |= SA_INTERRUPT;     /* XXX */
    else
      act.sa_flags |= SA_RESTART;               /* XXX */
+ #else
+   if (sig == SIGCHLD)
+     act.sa_flags |= SA_RESTART;
  #endif
    sigemptyset (&act.sa_mask);
    sigemptyset (&oact.sa_mask);
*** ../bash-4.1-patched/patchlevel.h    2009-10-01 16:39:22.000000000 -0400
--- patchlevel.h        2010-01-14 09:38:08.000000000 -0500
***************
*** 26,30 ****
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 8
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
--- 26,30 ----
     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
  
! #define PATCHLEVEL 9
  
  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */


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