I can't reproduce on Debian (bookworm): bash deb 5.2.15-2+b9 BASH_VERSION 5.2.15(1)-release Running with bash --norc
On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/17/25 2:01 AM, Casey Connor wrote: > > > Bash Version: 5.2 > > Patch Level: 15 > > Release Status: release > > > > Description: > > > > If I open a new terminal and enter the (obviously malformed) command > > "$(;" (without quotes) I get a bash crash about 90% of the time. > > Thanks for the report. I can't reproduce this using bash-5.3 on RHEL. I > don't have a Debian system handy to test on. > > Chet > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ >
