BASH PATCH REPORT =================
Bash-Release: 4.4 Patch-ID: bash44-018 Bug-Reported-by: Siteshwar Vashisht <svashi...@redhat.com> Bug-Reference-ID: <1341922391.30876471.1501250355579.javamail.zim...@redhat.com> Bug-Reference-URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1466737 Bug-Description: Under certain circumstances (e.g., reading from /dev/zero), read(2) will not return -1 even when interrupted by a signal. The read builtin needs to check for signals in this case. Patch (apply with `patch -p0'): *** ../bash-20170622/builtins/read.def 2017-06-17 18:45:20.000000000 -0400 --- builtins/read.def 2017-06-30 11:09:26.000000000 -0400 *************** *** 611,615 **** CHECK_ALRM; ! #if defined (READLINE) } --- 611,615 ---- CHECK_ALRM; ! QUIT; /* in case we didn't call check_signals() */ #if defined (READLINE) } *** ../bash-4.4/patchlevel.h 2016-06-22 14:51:03.000000000 -0400 --- patchlevel.h 2016-10-01 11:01:28.000000000 -0400 *************** *** 26,30 **** looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */ ! #define PATCHLEVEL 17 #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */ --- 26,30 ---- looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */ ! #define PATCHLEVEL 18 #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */ -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/