Affects trusty too. A quick way to reproduce this is (works 9 times out of 10 here): $ bash -c 'read -N 10000000' < /dev/urandom
Trusty output: $ bash -c 'read -N 10000000' < /dev/urandom malloc: ../.././builtins/../.././builtins/read.def:603: assertion botched realloc: start and end chunk sizes differ Aborting...Aborted Xenial output: $ bash -c 'read -N 10000000' < /dev/urandom malloc: ../.././builtins/../.././builtins/read.def:617: assertion botched realloc: start and end chunk sizes differ Aborting...Aborted ** Tags added: trusty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1583269 Title: Bash dies with a SIGABRT sporadically when doing 'read -N INTEGER'. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/1583269/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
