Bug 180777 - Bash crashes with "time" as first command
Summary: Bash crashes with "time" as first command
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: bash
Version: 4.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-02-10 09:29 UTC by Göran Uddeborg
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-10 09:41:11 UTC
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Description Göran Uddeborg 2006-02-10 09:29:48 UTC
Description of problem:
When "time" is given as the first command of a fresh invocation of bash, it
crashes with a segmentation fault

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bash-3.0-19.2

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. env - bash
2. time
  
Actual results:
Segmentation violation of the bash process.

Expected results:
Zero times

Additional info:
I have only seen it if "time" is the very first command of the new shell.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2006-02-10 09:41:11 UTC
This is fixed in newer versions of the bash package.  Thanks for the report.


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