Fedora 13 Update: ksh-20100309-5.fc13

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-8040
2010-05-06 02:06:21
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Name        : ksh
Product     : Fedora 13
Version     : 20100309
Release     : 5.fc13
URL         : http://www.kornshell.com/
Summary     : The Original ATT Korn Shell
Description :
KSH-93 is the most recent version of the KornShell by David Korn of
AT&T Bell Laboratories.
KornShell is a shell programming language, which is upward compatible
with "sh" (the Bourne Shell).

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Update Information:

- return of a command substitution from within another command substitution
caused stdin of coprocess to be closed in a ksh script  - whence -q was looping
forever  - fix rare cd builtin crash
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ChangeLog:

* Wed May  5 2010 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink at redhat.com> - 20100309-5
- fix rare cd builtin crash (#578582)
* Wed May  5 2010 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink at redhat.com> - 20100309-4
- fix infinite loop when whence builtin is used with -q option (#587127)
- fix stdin for double command substitution (#584007)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #584007 - Return of a command substitution from within another command substitution causes stdin of coprocess to be closed in a ksh script
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584007
  [ 2 ] Bug #578582 - [abrt] crash in ksh-20100309-1.fc12: Process /bin/ksh was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578582
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