Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i486 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i486' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i486-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_V$ uname output: Linux frank-laptop 2.6.32-42-generic #96-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 15 18:57:09 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux Machine Type: i486-pc-linux-gnu
Bash Version: 4.1 Patch Level: 5 Release Status: release Description: segmentation fault occur when I use deep recursive function. Repeat-By: the following content is my code recursion() { if [ $1 -ne 15000 ] ;then echo $1 let i=$1+1 recursion $i fi exit } recursion 1 Fix: I use ulimit -s to find stack size, which is 8192kbytes. Then I use valgrind to record the stack size which give me this information. test.sh: xmalloc: ../bash/unwind_prot.c:308: cannot allocate 172 bytes (8359936 bytes allocated) So from the above information I think this is not a stack overflow, and that is a real fault in this program. Regards, Yuxiang Cao