Bernd Eggink wrote: > Version: GNU bash, Version 4.0.17(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu) > (plus newline-shellmeta patch). > > A script which uses, among other things, 3 associative arrays and a > coprocess, crashes reproducibly with an allocation error: > > malloc: hashlib.c:306: assertion botched > free: called with unallocated block argument > Abbruch... > Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. > 0xffffe424 in __kernel_vsyscall () > > Appended is a stack trace. Hope it helps.
Unfortunately not much. If you could post a portion of the script that reproduces the error, that would be better. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/