Re: [minor] "precision" of $SECONDS

2016-02-26 Thread Chet Ramey
On 2/25/16 12:20 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > 2016-02-25 10:48:51 -0500, Chet Ramey: > [...] >> Because bash doesn't have floating point arithmetic. > > Yes, makes sense. mksh having $EPOCHREALTIME floating point even > though it doesn't have floating point arithmetic does sound > weird. > > An

Security Vulnerability Reporting

2016-02-26 Thread Travis Garrell
Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening, Is there a set process in place for reporting security vulnerabilities against bash? If so, what might that process be? Thank you much! Regards, Travis Garrell

Re: Security Vulnerability Reporting

2016-02-26 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/26/2016 07:54 AM, Travis Garrell wrote: > Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening, > > Is there a set process in place for reporting security vulnerabilities > against bash? If so, what might that process be? Very few bugs in bash are security vulnerabilities (shellshock being the obvious exception)

Re: Security Vulnerability Reporting

2016-02-26 Thread Dan Douglas
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Travis Garrell wrote: > Is there a set process in place for reporting security vulnerabilities > against bash? If so, what might that process be? Mail the maintainer. See: https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html#Bugs Encrypt with: https://tiswww.case.ed

Re: Security Vulnerability Reporting

2016-02-26 Thread Dan Douglas
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > Very few bugs in bash are security vulnerabilities (shellshock being the > obvious exception). Yes, bash has bugs, but in most cases, what people > think are security bugs in bash are actually poorly-written shell > functions that crash for th

Re: Security Vulnerability Reporting

2016-02-26 Thread Chet Ramey
On 2/26/16 11:13 AM, Dan Douglas wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> Very few bugs in bash are security vulnerabilities (shellshock being the >> obvious exception). Yes, bash has bugs, but in most cases, what people >> think are security bugs in bash are actually poorl