On 5/16/15 11:26 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
> However, it is not checking to see if v[end] is not NUL, which leads to
> a segmentation fault depending on what is on the stack when v gets
> allocated. FWIW, I managed to reproduce the failure using the inputrc
> file attached to this message.
>
> The patch to fix this issue is trivial. It just checks to see if v[end]
> is not NUL before proceeding with the whitespace check.
Thanks for the report. You have found one of the oldest bugs in readline:
that code has existed in more or less its current form for over 15 years.
> It seems that you are not using a ChangeLog file anymore, so I am
> sending only the patch. Please let me know if I need to send anything
> else.
Readline development is done along with bash, so the bash changelog (and
devel branch) contains the readline development history.
Chet
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