Bug 151941

Summary: bash segfault when killing background jobs
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Franco M. Bladilo <bladilo>
Component: bashAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Franco M. Bladilo 2005-03-23 18:37:05 UTC
Description of problem:
Bash crashes with a segfault after killing background jobs.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bash-2.05-8.2


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Execute bash
[root@management /]# bash
[root@management /]#

2. Background a job
[root@management /]# cat &
[1] 20043

3. Kill the job
[root@management /]# kill %1
                                                                               
                                                                             
[1]+  Stopped                 cat
4. Run another command
[root@management /]# pwd
/
Segmentation fault
  
Actual results:
Bash crashes.

Expected results:
succesfully kill a background job.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2005-03-23 18:50:16 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151939 ***