Bug report: Core dump with too many args

Bug report: Core dump with too many args

[Ole Tange]

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 - cmalloc would have returned NULL
Hangup


Versions:

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(3)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Licens GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 eller senere <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

$ /bin/echo --version
echo (GNU coreutils) 8.26
Packaged by Cygwin (8.26-2)
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Brian Fox and Chet Ramey.

$ /bin/wc --version
wc (GNU coreutils) 8.26
Packaged by Cygwin (8.26-2)
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.


Kind regards,

Ole Tange
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Re: Bug report: Core dump with too many args

[Steven Penny]

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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Re: Bug report: Core dump with too many args

[Achim Gratz]

Ole Tange writes:
> 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 - cmalloc would have returned NULL
> Hangup

They both just segfault with a stacktrace on my work laptop.  OTOH, both
succeed on our server, which admittedly has much more physical memory
(128GB), with lots of it free while I ran the commands.

So I guess the only real complaint is that the out-of-memory condition
should take precedence over other faults, or did you have something else
in mind?


Regards,
Achim.
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