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Re: Bug report: Core dump with too many args
- From: Steven Penny <svnpenn at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 07:04:49 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Bug report: Core dump with too many args
- References: <acb82352c5c3419e80dd9565c4d74240@prosa.dk>
On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 13:37:53, Ole Tange wrote:
I get core dump when running:
$ /bin/echo `seq 1000000`
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
This also looks bad:
$ /bin/wc `seq 1000000`
2 [main] -bash 15396 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - cmallo=
c would have returned NULL
Hangup
Not sure what you are expecting to happen when you provide pathological input to
the shell? For context - Fedora essentially does the same thing:
$ /bin/echo `seq 1000000`
Killed
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