From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 Description of problem: In tracking down some hardware problems with an SMP system, we came up with this very simple test. while [ 1 ] ; do date ; done | uniq -c I would expect that on an otherwise idle machine the date command can be run roughly the same number of times per second over long periods of time. But we see a trend over a few minutes where fewer and fewer instances are run. Sometimes this leads to that shell crashing. I posted this to the bash-bug list and got the following reply: Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 10:10:32 -0400 From: Chet Ramey <chet.cwru.edu> Reply-To: chet.edu To: jwright Cc: bug-bash, jwright, chet.edu Subject: Re: odd behavior of while loop, leading to crash It's a race condition. There is a fix in bash-2.05b. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bash-2.05-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.as above Additional info:
Fixed package is bash-2.05b-5.