Bug 1336800

Summary:	Race condition while expanding tilda may cause bash to skip updating ~/.bash_history
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Siteshwar Vashisht <svashisht>
Component:	bash	Assignee:	Siteshwar Vashisht <svashisht>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	24	CC:	admiller, svashisht
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Description Siteshwar Vashisht 2016-05-17 13:15:47 UTC

Description of problem:
If SIGHUP is received while expanding tilda, bash may skip updating ~/.bash_history due to a race condition.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bash-4.3.42-4

How reproducible:
Very rarely

Actual results:
bash does not update ~/.bash_history

Expected results:
bash should update ~/.bash_history

Additional info:

Upstream bug report: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-04/msg00106.html

Patch: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-04/msg00136.html

Comment 1 Siteshwar Vashisht 2016-05-17 14:59:01 UTC

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/bash.git/commit/?h=f24&id=eea397588ec1a1a0f6caf484bf85ab361e8023d3

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2016-05-17 16:50:13 UTC

bash-4.3.42-5.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-7d4344c4a2

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-05-21 01:35:50 UTC

bash-4.3.42-5.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-7d4344c4a2

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-05-23 20:05:10 UTC

bash-4.3.42-5.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.