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unsafe signal handler
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From: |
Tim Waugh |
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Subject: |
unsafe signal handler |
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Date: |
Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:06:28 +0100 |
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User-agent: |
Mutt/1.4.2.1i |
The signal handler termination_unwind_protect() can call
maybe_save_shell_history() -> append_history() -> history_do_write()
-> history_filename() -> xmalloc() -> malloc()
and malloc() is not safe to call from a signal handler. This affects
bash-2.05b as well as bash-3.0.
Tim.
*/ ref 163235
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