BASH PATCH REPORT
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Bash-Release: 5.3
Patch-ID: bash53-020
Bug-Reported-by: Félix Bouynot <[email protected]>
Bug-Reference-ID:
<[email protected]>
Bug-Reference-URL:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2026-05/msg00065.html
Bug-Description:
If readline handles a SIGWINCH and resizes its idea of the screen
dimensions, it needs to recompute the columns where the prompt wraps
lines every time, not just when the screen width decreases.
Patch (apply with `patch -p0'):
*** ../bash-5.3-patched/lib/readline/display.c Thu Sep 4 11:55:37 2025
--- lib/readline/display.c Fri May 22 14:55:01 2026
***************
*** 3526,3531 ****
rl_crlf ();
! if (_rl_screenwidth < prompt_visible_length)
! _rl_reset_prompt (); /* update local_prompt_newlines array */
/* Redraw only the last line of a multi-line prompt. */
--- 3521,3527 ----
rl_crlf ();
! /* Let expand_prompt() update local_prompt_newlines and
local_prompt_invis_chars
! arrays */
! _rl_reset_prompt ();
/* Redraw only the last line of a multi-line prompt. */
*** ../bash-5.3/patchlevel.h 2020-06-22 14:51:03.000000000 -0400
--- patchlevel.h 2020-10-01 11:01:28.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 26,30 ****
looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
! #define PATCHLEVEL 19
#endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
--- 26,30 ----
looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
! #define PATCHLEVEL 20
#endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
--
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
