On 7/30/12 3:30 PM, Brian Bloniarz wrote:
> Hi, I think I've stumbled on a bug involving memory allocation from signal 
> context
> in readline 6.2. In GDB, I see this traceback:

Thanks for the report.  This has already been fixed for the next version of
readline.

If you want to look at the fixed version, you can get it from the `devel'
branch of the bash git tree on savannah (the relevant file is
lib/readline/signals.c).

> The rl_resize_terminal() call happens because of a SIGWINCH signal (see 
> rl_sigwinch_handler).
> 
> I saw there was some discussion involving fixing signal-handler-safety bugs
> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2011-06/msg00003.html),
> but I didn't see this particular case being discussed. 

It's the same issue with the same fix.

Chet
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