Re: Bash-4.2 Official Patch 49

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/27/14, 1:00 AM, V S, Nagendra (Nonstop Filesystems Team) wrote:
> Hi Chet,
> Thanks a lot for the patch. 
> 
> The official bash patch & the patch that you posted on openwall forum seems 
> to be different.  The official bash patch does not contain this
> 
> *** ../bash-4.2.48/y.tab.c     2012-12-31 11:53:10.000000000 -0500
> --- y.tab.c    2014-09-25 20:23:25.000000000 -0400
> ***************
> *** 5163,5166 ****
> --- 5163,5168 ----
>     word_desc_to_read = (WORD_DESC *)NULL;
>   
> +   eol_ungetc_lookahead = 0;
> + 
>     current_token = '\n';             /* XXX */
>     last_read_token = '\n';
> ***************
> *** 8377,8379 ****
>   }
>   #endif /* HANDLE_MULTIBYTE */
> - 
> --- 8379,8380 ----
> 
> 
> Is this intentional ?

Yes, it was intentional.  Previous patches to bash-4.2 modified parse.y
without updating y.tab.c, so it didn't seem like a good idea to start
now.

Chet

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