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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-8040
2010-05-06 02:06:21
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Name : ksh
Product : Fedora 13
Version : 20100309
Release : 5.fc13
URL :
http://www.kornshell.com/
Summary : The Original ATT Korn Shell
Description :
KSH-93 is the most recent version of the KornShell by David Korn of
AT&T Bell Laboratories.
KornShell is a shell programming language, which is upward compatible
with "sh" (the Bourne Shell).
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Update Information:
- return of a command substitution from within another command substitution
caused stdin of coprocess to be closed in a ksh script - whence -q was looping
forever - fix rare cd builtin crash
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ChangeLog:
* Wed May 5 2010 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink(a)redhat.com> - 20100309-5
- fix rare cd builtin crash (#578582)
* Wed May 5 2010 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink(a)redhat.com> - 20100309-4
- fix infinite loop when whence builtin is used with -q option (#587127)
- fix stdin for double command substitution (#584007)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #584007 - Return of a command substitution from within another command
substitution causes stdin of coprocess to be closed in a ksh script
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584007
[ 2 ] Bug #578582 - [abrt] crash in ksh-20100309-1.fc12: Process /bin/ksh was killed by
signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578582
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