BASH PATCH REPORT

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Bash-Release: 3.2

Patch-ID: bash32-001

Bug-Reported-by:	Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>

Bug-Reference-ID:	<20061012084940.GA15768@tigers.local>

Bug-Reference-URL:	http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2006-10/msg00046.html

Bug-Description:

When using historical ``-style command substitution, bash incorrectly attempts

to interpret shell comments while scanning for the closing backquote.

Patch:

*** ../bash-3.2/parse.y	Tue Sep 19 16:37:21 2006

--- parse.y	Thu Oct 12 10:30:57 2006

***************

*** 2736,2740 ****

    count = 1;

    pass_next_character = backq_backslash = was_dollar = in_comment = 0;

!   check_comment = (flags & P_COMMAND) && qc != '\'' && qc != '"' && (flags & P_DQUOTE) == 0;

    /* RFLAGS is the set of flags we want to pass to recursive calls. */

--- 2736,2740 ----

    count = 1;

    pass_next_character = backq_backslash = was_dollar = in_comment = 0;

!   check_comment = (flags & P_COMMAND) && qc != '`' && qc != '\'' && qc != '"' && (flags & P_DQUOTE) == 0;

    /* RFLAGS is the set of flags we want to pass to recursive calls. */

*** ../bash-3.2/patchlevel.h	Thu Apr 13 08:31:04 2006

--- patchlevel.h	Mon Oct 16 14:22:54 2006

***************

*** 26,30 ****

     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */

! #define PATCHLEVEL 0

  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */

--- 26,30 ----

     looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */

! #define PATCHLEVEL 1

  #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */