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Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 07:04:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Steven Penny <svnpenn AT gmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Bug report: Core dump with too many args
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On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 13:37:53, Ole Tange wrote:
> I get core dump when running:
>
> $ /bin/echo `seq 1000000`
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> This also looks bad:
>
> $ /bin/wc `seq 1000000`
>       2 [main] -bash 15396 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - cmallo=
> c would have returned NULL
> Hangup

Not sure what you are expecting to happen when you provide pathological input to
the shell? For context - Fedora essentially does the same thing:

    $ /bin/echo `seq 1000000`
    Killed


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