[PATCH] Re: readline Bug! ;-) [was: Bash Bug! (was: Bug in rxvt 2.7.2 ...)]

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 11:12:27PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:46:23PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >> >Well, I guess I've figured this one out...  The bug was in readline-4.3.
> >> >I'm attaching patches for both bash-2.05b-5 and readline-4.3-1 (nearly
> >> >identical).  There is a *long* description of the bug and the fix below
> >> >for those who are interested, feel free to skip.
> >>
> >> Has this been sent to the readline maintainer (not the cygwin one), Igor?
> >
> >Umm, no.  Somehow I didn't think of that...  I'll forward it to them
> >(bug-readline at gnu.org, right?)
>
> Probably.  I don't know for sure.  Sorry.
>
> Thanks for tracking this down by the way.  Looks like it was a lot of fun
> finding the problem.
>
> cgf

Just sent this to the above address, we'll see what comes out of it.
Yeah, tracking this down was reasonably interesting, as well as coming up
with an appropriate fix.  Thanks,
	Igor
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