> > > > This doesn't help a lot. How about building bash-4.2.42 with -g so > > debugging symbols are preserved, then seeing where the crash is? > > > > I compiled 4.2.42 using gcc 4.6.3 (C[XX]FLAGS="-march=native -O2 -g"). It > took longer before the crash occurred and this is the report I got: > > malloc: ./read.def:696: assertion botched > free: called with already freed block argument > Aborting...catch.
OK. What version of Linux are you using? Maybe I have that and will be able to reproduce it more easily. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/