Fedora 16 Update: bash-4.2.28-1.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-7553
2012-05-10 03:37:56
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Name        : bash
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 4.2.28
Release     : 1.fc16
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/bash
Summary     : The GNU Bourne Again shell
Description :
The GNU Bourne Again shell (Bash) is a shell or command language
interpreter that is compatible with the Bourne shell (sh). Bash
incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and the C shell
(csh). Most sh scripts can be run by bash without modification.

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Update Information:

Update to upstream patch level 28
Bash could hang or segafult when handling sigchld signal
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ChangeLog:

* Wed May  9 2012 Roman Rakus <rrakus at redhat.com> - 4.2.28-1
- Patchlevel 28
* Mon Apr 23 2012 Roman Rakus <rrakus at redhat.com> - 4.2.24-2
- Don't call malloc in signal handler
* Tue Mar 13 2012 Roman Rakus <rrakus at redhat.com> - 4.2.24-1
- Patchlevel 24
* Thu Nov 24 2011 Roman Rakus <rrakus at redhat.com> - 4.2.20-1
- Patchlevel 20
* Thu Nov 24 2011 Roman Rakus <rrakus at redhat.com> - 4.2.10-6
- Add missing f:close() in postun
* Thu Nov 10 2011 Roman Rakus <rrakus at redhat.com> - 4.2.10-5
- erase /bin/bash and /bin/sh in postun only if we are uninstalling (#752827)
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