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Article #775Re: core dump after interrupted username completion
From: Chet Ramey
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1989 20:45
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1989 20:45
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In article <8911251056.AA19997@slembe.uio.no> hhe@IFI.UIO.NO writes: > First, I type part of an username and press TAB for completion. > The completion takes a while (our system has >2000 users), so > I press ^C and interrupt the completion. > > Then, I write the username in full with a trailing slash and press > M-? (filename completion) to see the user's files. Core dump.... As reported by Paul Placeway here some time ago, this is a bug in YP, not bash. The Sun getpw* routines close and re-open a socket to the YP server when they think they need to, which is not always correct. Based on this assumption, they inappropriately free resources, which is why bash dumps core. Chet Ramey -- Chet Ramey Network Services Group "Where's my froggie?" Case Western Reserve University chet@ins.CWRU.Edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!cwjcc!cwns1!chet From: chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: core dump after interrupted username completion Message-ID: <913@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu> Date: 26 Nov 89 20:45:28 GMT References: <8911251056.AA19997@slembe.uio.no> Sender: news@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu Reply-To: chet@cwns1.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey) Distribution: gnu Organization: Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio, (USA) Lines: 22