Package: bash Version: 3.1-4 Severity: normal
Bash segmetation faults with extremely long argument lists instead of giving normal "too many arguments" message. A way to reproduce (this may take a while if not using xfs or reiser4): $ I=0; while ((I<1000000)); do echo abbabaabaa > f_$I.txt; ((I++)); done $ rm f* Segmentation fault Tested on three different machines running about the same Debian testing. Same happens at least with "ls f*" command. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages bash depends on: ii base-files 3.1.12 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii debianutils 2.15.7 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-1.1 Shared libraries for terminal hand bash recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
