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Re: Input line length
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Input line length |
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Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:51:23 -0600 |
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On 06/07/2010 02:38 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> I bet this is the kernel killing bash when the stack size resource limit
> is exceeded, not anything bash is doing or can catch.
To the contrary, it is possible to use the GPL libsigsegv to catch stack
overflow and exit with a clean error message instead of a SEGV; several
other GNU programs, such as guile, gawk, and m4, use this approach.
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Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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