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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:41:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Andreas Eibach <ae_cygwin AT web DOT de>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Sensitive/critical bug found?
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On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Andreas Eibach wrote:

> It looks that I have.
> First of all, ALL version numbers of the tools I used:
>
> GNU find version 4.2.11 (cvs)
> GNU xargs version 4.2.11 (cvs)
> glib version 2.6.5 (the bug might also appear with other packages)
>
> [snip]
> $ cd glib-2.6.5
> $ find . -name '*' | xargs grep -i 'threads_got_initialized' > out2.log
>
> ATTENTION. out2.log will grow and grow ... and grew more than 2 GB here,
> until I got a "No space left on device".

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PEBKAC>, and not Cygwin-specific, either.  Of
course grep would look for "threads_got_initialized" in every file in the
current directory, *including out2.log*!  And it'll keep appending the
results to that same out2.log.

> $ find . -name '*' | xargs grep -i 'threads_got_initialized' | tee out2.log
>
> works, though.
>
> Can anyone of you reproduce this behavior?

HTH,
	Igor
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