Re: ksh i386 ##
Hi Bob,
Well I dunno how to fill a report on ksh, is that at David Korn site?
Or is it a debian specific.
It happen on ubuntu as well.
I admit I am not a linux guru, working on it occasionally.
Cheers,
Phi
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Phi Debian wrote:
>> On a fresh debian install (well 3.2.0-4-686-pae) I installed the ksh package.
>>
>> Typing ## at promt exit the shell immediatly.
>
> Confirmed. Good report. It is a program bug.
>
> $ ulimit -c unlimited
> $ ksh
> $ #Segmentation fault
> $ ls -ldog core
> -rw------- 1 393216 Aug 15 17:55 core
>
>> On x86_64 it doesn't do that.
>
> Looks like a memory corruption bug. Different architectures will have
> different memory chunks in different places. It just happens not to
> memory fault on amd64 while it does on 686. Other architectures will
> probably do other random things. Memory stomps are hard to predict.
>
> Definitely a bug. Please file a bug report.
>
> Bob
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