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Re: Bash-5.0-alpha available
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Bash-5.0-alpha available |
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Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:42:28 -0400 |
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On 9/16/18 3:00 AM, Eduardo Bustamante wrote:
> Out of curiosity, when / how will bash 5.x become a stable release?
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> The main reason I ask is that I'd like to ensure that there's
> reasonable fuzzing coverage of the parser, readline and other
> easy-to-fuzz areas of bash before that happens.
Bash-5.0 is about to go into beta test. While fuzzing has some
interesting results, I haven't really seen any security problems or
any serious bug that would cause me to hold up a release from the
fuzzing-uncovered issues I've seen so far.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/