Sensitive/critical bug found?
Andreas Eibach
ae_cygwin@web.de
Fri Jun 17 23:05:00 GMT 2005
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)
Assumed I am in ~/devel.
In devel, I do a
tar jxvf glib-2.6.5.tar.bz2
and end up with a glib-2.6.5/ subdirectory. (The problems building glib are NOT supposed to be discussed in this thread)
Now let's look for a specific string:
$ find glib-2.6.5 -name '*' | xargs grep -i 'threads_got_initialized' > out1.log
Works! out1.log is a few kBytes big, and shows the matches I wanted.
Now let's do it a little differently:
$ 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".
$ find . -name '*' | xargs grep -i 'threads_got_initialized' | tee out2.log
works, though.
Can anyone of you reproduce this behavior?
-Andreas
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