| BASH PATCH REPORT |
| ================= |
| |
| Bash-Release: 4.2 |
| Patch-ID: bash42-007 |
| |
| Bug-Reported-by: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> |
| Bug-Reference-ID: <4D6FD2AC.1010500@debian.org> |
| Bug-Reference-URL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-03/msg00015.html |
| |
| Bug-Description: |
| |
| When used in contexts where word splitting and quote removal were not |
| performed, such as case statement word expansion, empty strings |
| (either literal or resulting from quoted variables that were unset or |
| null) were not expanded correctly, resulting in failure. |
| |
| Patch (apply with `patch -p0'): |
| |
| *** ../bash-4.2-patched/subst.c 2011-02-25 12:03:58.000000000 -0500 |
| --- ./subst.c 2011-03-03 14:08:23.000000000 -0500 |
| *************** |
| *** 4609,4614 **** |
| --- 4611,4617 ---- |
| if (ifs_firstc == 0) |
| #endif |
| word->flags |= W_NOSPLIT; |
| + word->flags |= W_NOSPLIT2; |
| result = call_expand_word_internal (word, quoted, 0, (int *)NULL, (int *)NULL); |
| expand_no_split_dollar_star = 0; |
| |
| *** ../bash-4.2-patched/patchlevel.h Sat Jun 12 20:14:48 2010 |
| --- ./patchlevel.h Thu Feb 24 21:41:34 2011 |
| *************** |
| *** 26,30 **** |
| looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */ |
| |
| ! #define PATCHLEVEL 6 |
| |
| #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */ |
| --- 26,30 ---- |
| looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */ |
| |
| ! #define PATCHLEVEL 7 |
| |
| #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */ |
