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Date:      Fri, 14 Mar 1997 23:11:53 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com (Zach Heilig)
Cc:        bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Who's bug is this, FreeBSD's or bash's?
Message-ID:  <19970314231153.NK01585@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <19970314033300.35686@gaffaneys.com>; from Zach Heilig on Mar 14, 1997 03:33:00 -0600
References:  <19970314033300.35686@gaffaneys.com>

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As Zach Heilig wrote:

> I got this earlier today, after I accidentally cat'ed a binary file on my
> terminal, and trying to hit ^C to stop it.
> 
> .. binary garbage ...
>         zach.ttyv0$ -bash in free(): warning: recursive call.

bash bug.  It attempts to use malloc or free inside a signal handler.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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