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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: PATCH: 3.0.6-pre-4: Sneaky history bug
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 06:47:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <990616064758.ZM25956@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)

Start with an empty history, as with "zsh -f" or a non-login shell, and
then try to do a "quick substitution" on the nonexistent previous command
using the second character in $histchars (usually '^').  I found myself
in hend() with chwordpos == -2, which did all sorts of fun things when
memcpy was called with chwordpos * sizeof(short) as its third parameter.

I think only Wayne really knows what's going on in the code below, but
this patch at least seems to prevent zsh committing hara-kiri.  You end
up with an empty entry in the history, though.

Index: Src/hist.c
===================================================================
@@ -719,7 +719,7 @@
 	}
 #endif
 	/* get rid of pesky \n which we've already nulled out */
-	if (!chline[chwords[chwordpos-2]])
+	if (chwordpos > 1 && !chline[chwords[chwordpos-2]])
 	    chwordpos -= 2;
 	/* strip superfluous blanks, if desired */
 	if (isset(HISTREDUCEBLANKS))

-- 
Bart Schaefer                                 Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts              http://www.brasslantern.com


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