On 11/10/17 8:19 AM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 01:59:46PM +0100, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> [...]
>> On Ubuntu Artful (glibc-2.26), this tiny snippet reproducibly crashes bash:
>>
>> LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 # or any other UTF-8 locale
>> echo -e '\ud800' # or any other lone high or low surrogate
>> LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 # or any available locale
>
> The problem is that Bash treats UTF-8 as a special case, so it doesn't
> initialize `localconv' to a proper value in `u32cconv', but then it calls
> `iconv_close' on the uninitialized `localconv' value during the locale switch.
Thanks for the report and the fix, which looks right.
Chet
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