Bug#2023: latex dumps core on -QUIT
Package: texbin
Version: 3.1415-4
The following dialog with sh shows how to get latex to dump core.
Between LaTeX's "**" prompt and the next line's "[1]+ Stopped...", I
pressed C-z.
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/var/tmp> ls -la
total 3
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 2048 Dec 13 19:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 1024 Nov 21 04:04 ..
/var/tmp> latex
This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1)
**
[1]+ Stopped latex
/var/tmp> killall -QUIT latex
/var/tmp> fg
latex
Quit (core dumped)
/var/tmp> ls -la
total 3984
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 2048 Dec 13 19:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 1024 Nov 21 04:04 ..
-rw------- 1 swift swift 4061704 Dec 13 19:25 core
/var/tmp> dpkg --status texbin
Package: texbin
Status: install ok installed
Priority: standard
Section: tex
Maintainer: Nils Rennebarth <nils@nus.pan-net.de>
Version: 3.1415
Revision: 4
Provides: tex
Depends: texlib (>1.0-3), metafont, kpathsea
Recommends: latex
Optional: textfm
Description: TeX - The typesetting system
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