gnu/62555: readline 4.3 should be patched

Michael Rasmussen mrjunk at midtfyn.net
Sun Feb 8 15:30:20 PST 2004


>Number:         62555
>Category:       gnu
>Synopsis:       readline 4.3 should be patched
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Feb 08 15:30:20 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Michael Rasmussen
>Release:        5.2.1-RC
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
The patches from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/readline/readline-4.3-patches/ has not been applied to src/contrib/libreadline and can, among other, cause problems with bash, making it core-dump with 60-70 MB core dumps, triggering an endless recursive loop in libreadline
>How-To-Repeat:
      
>Fix:
Apply the patches from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/readline/readline-4.3-patches/
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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