Re: Bash crashes while handling very long string in parameter expansion

2016-08-10 Thread Chet Ramey
On 8/10/16 7:20 AM, Siteshwar Vashisht wrote: > > (gdb) frame 1 > #1 0x00455a4a in sub_append_string ( > source=0x7ffef75de010 > "\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.\001.

Re: Bash crashes while handling very long string in parameter expansion

2016-08-10 Thread Siteshwar Vashisht
- Original Message - > From: "Chet Ramey" > To: "Siteshwar Vashisht" , bug-bash@gnu.org > Cc: "chet ramey" > Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 7:43:54 PM > Subject: Re: Bash crashes while handling very long string in parameter > expan

Re: Bash crashes while handling very long string in parameter expansion

2016-08-09 Thread Chet Ramey
On 8/9/16 5:46 AM, Siteshwar Vashisht wrote: > Bash Version: 4.4 > Patch Level: 0 > Release Status: rc2 > > 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 p