7.15. bash

Bug Fixes

BZ#1148507

Prior to this update, Bash refused to import previously exported functions whose names contained a hyphen. As a consequence, scripts that used such functions did not work properly, and Bash printed the following error message:

bash: error importing function definition for `BASH_FUNC_function-name'

With this update, Bash accepts hyphens in the names of imported functions.

BZ#1150544, BZ#1155455

Previously, Bash incorrectly parsed function definitions containing a here-document that ended with the end-of-file or end-of-string character. Consequently, Bash accessed an invalid memory segment when the parsed function was copied, and Bash terminated with a segmentation fault. This problem has been fixed. As a result, Bash no longer crashes when the aforementioned function definitions are used.

BZ#1119587

The section in the Bash man page describing the ulimit command did not contain the fact that 512-byte blocks are used for the "-c" and "-f" options in POSIX mode. This information has now been added.