heredoc in command subst bug?

I'm not sure whether this is a bug in POSIX or in bash, but I noticed the following with bash-3.2.39. $ bash -c 'foo=$(cat

bash signal handling coredump on Linux

On a CentOS 4.4 system on a x86_64, using bash 3.0 (Redhat's bash-3.0-19.3 package), bash coredumped when the stack filled up. Looks like signals being received from within a signal handler to me. This happened after someone hit ctrl-c many times while tail -f'ing a log file that was being written