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Re: possible stack flow in bash
From: Sebastian Jaenicke <tsa () jaenicke org>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 18:30:52 +0200
Hi, On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 04:03:27PM +0000, Junior wrote:
Stack in bash stows observing possible. Step 1 - bash-2.05a# ls "!x123456" ...exitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexite xitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexite xitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexitexit" bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long Step 2 - bash-2.05a# ls "!x123456" ...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" bash: xrealloc: cannot reallocate 134322944 bytes (0 bytes allocated) Welcome to Linux 2.4.18 (tty8)
I can't reproduce this on ROCK Linux with bash 2.05a: [tsa@azathoth ~]$ echo $SHELL /bin/bash [tsa@azathoth ~]$ /bin/bash --version GNU bash, version 2.05a.0(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. [tsa@azathoth ~]$ ls "!x123456" bash: !x123456: event not found [tsa@azathoth ~]$ - Sebastian -- Sebastian Jaenicke whois pgpkey-18AC0BE4 -h whois.ripe.net|perl -ne's-^certif: +--&&print' "Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California." --Edsger Dijkstra
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