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From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
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Subject: Re: Shell bug
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 08:37:38 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, jc@irbs.com
In-Reply-To: <199509210604.QAA31088@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Sep 21, 95 04:04:31 pm
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Bruce Evans writes:
> 
> >This will `Memory fault' on the fifth iteration:
> 
> >    while { sleep 1 & wait ; } ; do
> >    ...
> 
> >It appears that { anything & wait ; } is a problem.
> 
> >Fails on -current, -stable, and 1.1.5.1.  Works with bash and
> >-current, SunOS 4.0, Irix 5.3
> 
> The new malloc() detects something being freed twice.
> 
> The problem seems to be fixed in 4.4lite2 (which has a lot of changes
> to sh).  However, the problem also seems to be fixed in the current sh
> (dated Sep 7) on freeefall.
> 

That's interesting.  I supped on Sep 19 and the newest file in the sh
directory is 31502 Aug 28 16:56 parser.c and I am using that one.

I'll update libc and try it.

John Capo
IRBS Engineering