Re: export TERM can sometimes crash bash

[Chet Ramey]

> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i386
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386'
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i386-redhat-linux-gnu'
> -DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -D_GNU_SOURCE
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib -I/usr/include -O2
> -march=i386 -mcpu=i686
> uname output: Linux clarity 2.2.17-14 #1 Mon Feb 5 16:02:20 EST 2001
> i686 unknown
> Machine Type: i386-redhat-linux-gnu
> 
> Bash Version: 2.04
> Patch Level: 11
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>  bash drops core when u set an invalid TERM type, and change back to
> xterm,
>  sometimes not straight away, but eventually it will.

This is a coincidence.  I just posted an analysis of this to bug-bash
last week or the week before.

It's a bug introduced by one of the patches to the Red Hat termcap library.
Red Hat needs to fix it.

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Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/