BASH PATCH REPORT ================= Bash-Release: 4.2 Patch-ID: bash42-015 Bug-Reported-by: Bug-Reference-ID: <728_1312188080_4E3666B0_728_118711_1_3B5D3E0F95CC5C478D6500CDCE8B691F7AAAA4AA3D@PUEXCB2B.nanterre.francetelecom.fr> Bug-Reference-URL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-08/msg00000.html Bug-Description: When in a context where arithmetic evaluation is not taking place, the evaluator should not check for division by 0. Patch (apply with `patch -p0'): --- a/expr.c +++ b/expr.c @@ -476,19 +476,23 @@ expassign () if (special) { + if ((op == DIV || op == MOD) && value == 0) + { + if (noeval == 0) + evalerror (_("division by 0")); + else + value = 1; + } + switch (op) { case MUL: lvalue *= value; break; case DIV: - if (value == 0) - evalerror (_("division by 0")); lvalue /= value; break; case MOD: - if (value == 0) - evalerror (_("division by 0")); lvalue %= value; break; case PLUS: @@ -804,7 +808,12 @@ exp2 () val2 = exppower (); if (((op == DIV) || (op == MOD)) && (val2 == 0)) - evalerror (_("division by 0")); + { + if (noeval == 0) + evalerror (_("division by 0")); + else + val2 = 1; + } if (op == MUL) val1 *= val2; --- a/patchlevel.h +++ b/patchlevel.h @@ -25,6 +25,6 @@ regexp `^#define[ ]*PATCHLEVEL', since that's what support/mkversion.sh looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */ -#define PATCHLEVEL 14 +#define PATCHLEVEL 15 #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */