Hi Chet, I'm curious to see what kind of fixes were made. Can you point us to two or three of them by URL? I'm looking here and I've navigated around a bit but I can't seem to orient myself:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/readline.git/ This sounds like an interesting learning opportunity... Thanks, Frederick On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:03:12AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 7/9/17 2:10 AM, Ben Wong wrote: > > Readline is causing bash to dump core every once in a bluemoon. It's > > extremely infrequent and hard to reproduce, so, to debug it, I'm using > > random input from fuzz(1). It turns out, libreadline *consistently* > > crashes (segmentation fault) or hangs (infinite loop using all CPU) > > under fuzz testing. > > These have all been fixed, and are fixed in both the readline and bash > devel git branches on savannah. Thanks for taking a look. > > Eduardo Bustamante did a lot of work fuzzing readline via bash's `read -e' > and uncovered these and other, very old, bugs. > > Chet > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-readline mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-readline > _______________________________________________ Bug-readline mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-readline
