2002-02-12 08:04:16

by Giacomo A. Catenazzi

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Subject: Re: kernel config core dump w/ bad inpu

David Ford wrote:

> SYM53C8XX Version 2 SCSI support (CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2) [N/y/m/?]
> (NEW) y
> DMA addressing mode (CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE) [1]
> (NEW) y
> scripts/Configure: line 245: 14353 Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> expr \( \( $ans + 0 \) \>= $min \) \& \( $ans \<= $max \) >/dev/null 2>&1


This is a bug of 'expr/bash', but anyway the the Configure should discard
non numeric value before to compare it.


giacomo