BASH PATCH REPORT

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Bash-Release:	4.2

Patch-ID:	bash42-017

Bug-Reported-by:	Curtis Doty <[email protected]>

Bug-Reference-ID:	<[email protected]>

Bug-Reference-URL:	http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-06/msg00053.html

Bug-Description:

Using `read -a foo' where foo was an already-declared associative array

caused the shell to die with a segmentation fault.

Patch (apply with `patch -p0'):

*** ../bash-4.2-patched/builtins/read.def	2011-01-04 11:43:36.000000000 -0500

--- builtins/read.def	2011-06-21 10:31:02.000000000 -0400

***************

*** 643,646 ****

--- 642,651 ----

  	  return EXECUTION_FAILURE;	/* readonly or noassign */

  	}

+       if (assoc_p (var))

+ 	{

+           builtin_error (_("%s: cannot convert associative to indexed array"), arrayname);

+ 	  xfree (input_string);

+ 	  return EXECUTION_FAILURE;	/* existing associative array */

+ 	}

        array_flush (array_cell (var));

*** ../bash-4.2-patched/patchlevel.h	Sat Jun 12 20:14:48 2010

--- patchlevel.h	Thu Feb 24 21:41:34 2011

***************

*** 26,30 ****

     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */

! #define PATCHLEVEL 16

  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */

--- 26,30 ----

     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */

! #define PATCHLEVEL 17

  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */