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Date:      Thu, 21 Sep 1995 16:04:31 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, jc@irbs.com
Subject:   Re: Shell bug
Message-ID:  <199509210604.QAA31088@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>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.

Bruce


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