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Re: Bash crashes while handling very long string in parameter expansion
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Bash crashes while handling very long string in parameter expansion |
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Tue, 9 Aug 2016 10:13:54 -0400 |
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On 8/9/16 5:46 AM, Siteshwar Vashisht wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: rc2
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> Description:
> Bash crashes while handling very long string in parameter expansion.
You exceed the hard resource limit for your data segment size, and either
the kernel kills the process or malloc fails and xmalloc() aborts the
process. If malloc fails and returns 0, the shell will attempt to print
an explanatory message. If that's not happening, the kernel is killing it.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/