On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 06:50:59AM -0500, Siteshwar Vashisht wrote: [...] > Bash Version: 4.4 > Patch Level: 12 > Release Status: release > > Repeat-By: > $ bash -c 'true $(yes xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)' > bash: xrealloc: cannot allocate 18446744071562067968 bytes
Interesting! I think this might explain the behavior reported in: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-11/msg00051.html