On 1/5/18 6:42 PM, Alfred Baroti wrote:
> Hi,
> I found this from long long time ago.
> Is this a serious bug?
>
>
> [root@n1x ~]#su nix
> nix@n1x:/root$ printf "%s\n"
> {{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}}{{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}}{{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}}{{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}}{{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}}
> bash: xmalloc: .././braces.c:793: cannot allocate 7329062664 bytes
> (614682624 bytes allocated)
> [root@n1x ~]#
You're using the bash malloc, and you've exceeded the maximum permitted
allocation size (2**32 - 1).
The other possible cause is that you've exceeded the resource limit for
the size of the data segment, but that doesn't appear to be the case.
Chet
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