Re: Bash crash

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/14/15 2:52 AM, Piotr Grzybowski wrote:
> Hey,
> 
>  we have had an off--list discussion with Kai on this (to shorten the
> 30 mails we exchanged ;-) I am writing this summary). He solved the
> issue by --without-bash-malloc which could indicate a bug or lack of
> proper support in lib/malloc/malloc.c for his platform. However, we
> were unable to get more information, it is not that easy to reproduce.
> If there is no one who can reproduce this we can try again, if you
> think it is worthwhile.
>  For now, if anyone bumps into this, try, according to Kai findings,
> configure with --without-bash-malloc

I think the likely cause is that sbrk() either has a bug or is not
emulated well.  I think what I said in

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2015-10/msg00171.html

holds true.  The likely reason that the system malloc works is that
it doesn't use sbrk().

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