Sensitive/critical bug found?

[Andreas Eibach]

cygwin@cygwin.com schrieb am 18.06.05 00:41:39:
> > $ find . -name '*' | xargs grep -i 'threads_got_initialized' > out2.log
> >
> > ATTENTION. out2.log will grow and grow ... and grew more than 2 GB here,
> > until I got a "No space left on device".
> 
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PEBKAC>, and not Cygwin-specific, either.
*grin*. This fits.
>  Of
> course grep would look for "threads_got_initialized" in every file in the
> current directory, *including out2.log*!  And it'll keep appending the
> results to that same out2.log.

*bangs head*
Arrrrr...and I got unix experience since about 10 years now!
But it's always that simple, ultra-primitive things that cause these sorts of "deadlocks" (which are remotely related to that, I think :))

Many thanks.
$ find . -name '*.[ch]' | xargs grep -i 'threads_got_initialized' > out2.log

"fixed" (laugh) this.

-Andreas
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