On 8/28/15 7:52 PM, Oleg Popov wrote:
> Description:
> Function reset_alarm() in read.def first resets SIGALRM handler and
> then cancels alarm. Sometimes, SIGALRM comes between those 2 calls and
> crashes (sub)shell.
>
> Repeat-By:
> while sleep 0.00$RANDOM; do echo test; done | while true; do read -t
> 0.00$RANDOM; echo $REPLY; done
> (usually takes a few seconds to crash, sometimes minutes)
>
> Fix:
> Swap the lines in reset_alarm().
Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in the next release of bash.
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