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Re: bash integer overflow (?) with large HISTFILESIZE
From: |
Greg Wooledge |
Subject: |
Re: bash integer overflow (?) with large HISTFILESIZE |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 09:02:20 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.3i |
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 08:39:27PM -0500, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>
> With the latest version of bash just deployed in the Arch Linux
> repositories, bash fails with HISTSIZE=2147483647:
>
> bash: xmalloc: cannot allocate 18446744056529682440 bytes
This was addressed with patch bash44-001:
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-4.4-patches/bash44-001