See the comment near the top of the patch ...
This is a proposed fix for:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566511
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566512
It needs testing on a wider range of bash versions, eg. bash <= 3.1
and bash < 4.0, and whatever bash was included in RHEL 5.
Rich.
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