Hi all, I think there is a severe memleak in bash.
I had this effect with bash 4.2.10 (Ubuntu Linux) as well as
bash 4.1.9 on Gentoo Linux.
To make it short:
echo {0..10000000}>/dev/null
This makes my system starting to swap as bash will allocate several GiB of
memory.
If I choose a way bigger number bash "just" seems to crash:
mschiff@lisa ~ $ echo {1..1000000000000000000}>/dev/null
bash: xmalloc: cannot allocate 11892949016 bytes (135168 bytes allocated)
mschiff@lisa ~ $
Is this a bug?
Please do not try this on a productive machine!
-Marc
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