This was reported on the cygwin list. I don't know if bash-3.1/ readline-5.1 have fixed the issue or not. I also don't have access to a debian machine to try reproducing it myself.
-------------- Forwarded Message: -------------- From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Please try a snapshot - final push for 1.5.19 Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 21:45:56 +0000 > > I played with this all day and I can't convince myself that it isn't a > readline bug. It seems like there is a situation where bash/readline > unmasks SIGINT and potentially lets a stray CTRL-C in while the signal > handler is still carefully dealing with signals, causing recursion and, > eventually, an overflow of cygwin's signal stack. > > In fact, I could crash bash on linux by doing a: > > while kill -INT nnn; do :; done > > where nnn denotes the pid of a running Debian bash 3.00.16(1)-release > binary. > _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
