BASH PATCH REPORT ================= Bash-Release: 3.1 Patch-ID: bash31-016 Bug-Reported-by: Nikita Danilov Bug-Reference-ID: <17397.51015.769854.541057@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Bug-Reference-URL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2006-02/msg00064.html Bug-Description: Bash will dump core when attempting to perform globbing in directories with very large numbers of files. Patch: *** ../bash-3.1-patched/lib/glob/glob.c Thu Mar 24 12:42:27 2005 --- lib/glob/glob.c Fri Mar 3 16:54:12 2006 *************** *** 361,364 **** --- 361,365 ---- firstmalloc = 0; + nalloca = 0; /* If PAT is empty, skip the loop, but return one (empty) filename. */ *************** *** 547,550 **** --- 551,556 ---- tmplink = lastlink; } + else + tmplink = 0; free (lastlink->name); lastlink = lastlink->next; *** ../bash-3.1/patchlevel.h Wed Jul 20 13:58:20 2005 --- patchlevel.h Wed Dec 7 13:48:42 2005 *************** *** 26,30 **** looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */ ! #define PATCHLEVEL 15 #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */ --- 26,30 ---- looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */ ! #define PATCHLEVEL 16 #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */