1 			     BASH PATCH REPORT

     2 			     =================

     3 

     4 Bash-Release:	4.3

     5 Patch-ID:	bash43-007

     6 

     7 Bug-Reported-by:	[email protected]

     8 Bug-Reference-ID:	<[email protected]>

     9 Bug-Reference-URL:	http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2014-03/msg00095.html

    10 

    11 Bug-Description:

    12 

    13 Using compound assignments for associative arrays like

    14 

    15 assoc=( [x]= [y]=bar )

    16 

    17 left the value corresponding to the key `x' NULL.  This caused subsequent

    18 lookups to interpret it as unset.

    19 

    20 Patch (apply with `patch -p0'):

    21 

    22 *** ../bash-4.3/arrayfunc.c	2013-08-02 16:19:59.000000000 -0400

    23 --- arrayfunc.c	2014-03-18 11:08:15.000000000 -0400

    24 ***************

    25 *** 598,601 ****

    26 --- 598,606 ----

    27   	{

    28   	  val = expand_assignment_string_to_string (val, 0);

    29 + 	  if (val == 0)

    30 + 	    {

    31 + 	      val = (char *)xmalloc (1);

    32 + 	      val[0] = '\0';	/* like do_assignment_internal */

    33 + 	    }

    34   	  free_val = 1;

    35   	}

    36 *** ../bash-4.3/patchlevel.h	2012-12-29 10:47:57.000000000 -0500

    37 --- patchlevel.h	2014-03-20 20:01:28.000000000 -0400

    38 ***************

    39 *** 26,30 ****

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

    41   

    42 ! #define PATCHLEVEL 6

    43   

    44   #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */

    45 --- 26,30 ----

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

    47   

    48 ! #define PATCHLEVEL 7

    49   

    50   #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */