[debbugs-tracker] bug#13258: closed (bug in ln.)

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #13258,
regarding bug in ln.
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: bug in ln. Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:40:01 +1100 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0

ln bug.

$ gdb ln
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Reading symbols from /bin/ln...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run `perl -e 'print "x"x(2**31)'` `perl -e 'print "x"x(2**30)'`
Starting program: /bin/ln `perl -e 'print "x"x(2**31)'` `perl -e 'print "x"x(2**30)'`
/bin/bash: xrealloc: ../bash/subst.c:5179: cannot allocate 18446744071562067968 bytes (4295012352 bytes allocated)
During startup program exited with code 2.




Doing it without gdb, it just crashes the console.
Inside `screen` it crashes that one screen (say you have two "tabs" in the screen, it only crashes the one tab)
Bug can be reproduced like this:
/bin/ln `perl -e 'print "x"x(2**31)'` `perl -e 'print "x"x(2**30)'`


K, thanks.

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> Here's how to reproduce the problem:
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> (printf 'ln '
>  perl -e 'print "x"x(2**31)'
>  printf ' '
>  perl -e 'print "x"x(2**30)'
>  printf '\n'
> ) >bigscript
> bash bigscript
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> On my x86-64 host, Bash loops, seemingly forever.
> I expect it's using a 32-bit integer to keep track
> of line lengths, somewhere.
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> This bug report was inspired by the following report:
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> http://debbugs.gnu.org/13258
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> That bug report is against coreutils, but the real
> bug was in bash, so I'm closing bug 13258 and forwarding
> this to address@hidden
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