diff -urpN busybox-1.16.0/shell/ash.c busybox-1.16.0-ash/shell/ash.c
--- busybox-1.16.0/shell/ash.c	2010-01-25 01:59:38.000000000 +0100
+++ busybox-1.16.0-ash/shell/ash.c	2010-02-21 01:52:22.000000000 +0100
@@ -4539,7 +4539,7 @@ forkchild(struct job *jp, union node *n,
 	if (mode == FORK_NOJOB          /* is it `xxx` ? */
 	 && n && n->type == NCMD        /* is it single cmd? */
 	/* && n->ncmd.args->type == NARG - always true? */
-	 && strcmp(n->ncmd.args->narg.text, "trap") == 0
+	 && n->ncmd.args && strcmp(n->ncmd.args->narg.text, "trap") == 0
 	 && n->ncmd.args->narg.next == NULL /* "trap" with no arguments */
 	/* && n->ncmd.args->narg.backquote == NULL - do we need to check this? */
 	) {
@@ -4627,7 +4627,7 @@ forkchild(struct job *jp, union node *n,
 	}
 #if JOBS
 	if (n && n->type == NCMD
-	 && strcmp(n->ncmd.args->narg.text, "jobs") == 0
+	 && n->ncmd.args && strcmp(n->ncmd.args->narg.text, "jobs") == 0
 	) {
 		TRACE(("Job hack\n"));
 		/* "jobs": we do not want to clear job list for it,
diff -urpN busybox-1.16.0/shell/ash_test/ash-misc/nulltick1.right busybox-1.16.0-ash/shell/ash_test/ash-misc/nulltick1.right
--- busybox-1.16.0/shell/ash_test/ash-misc/nulltick1.right	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ busybox-1.16.0-ash/shell/ash_test/ash-misc/nulltick1.right	2010-02-21 01:52:22.000000000 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Test 1
+Test 2
+Done
diff -urpN busybox-1.16.0/shell/ash_test/ash-misc/nulltick1.tests busybox-1.16.0-ash/shell/ash_test/ash-misc/nulltick1.tests
--- busybox-1.16.0/shell/ash_test/ash-misc/nulltick1.tests	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ busybox-1.16.0-ash/shell/ash_test/ash-misc/nulltick1.tests	2010-02-21 01:52:22.000000000 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+echo Test ` ` 1
+echo Test `</dev/null` 2
+echo Done