On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:45:09AM -0700, Dima Kogan wrote: > David Kalnischkies <da...@kalnischkies.de> writes: [..] > Hi David. Thank you for looking at this. Looking a bit more deeply, it > looks like my shell was expanding ^xxx- to a list of all files in the > local directory, and the cause of the crash was simply too many > arguments. The following crashes consistently for me: > > apt-cache search xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx > xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx > xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx > xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx > xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx > xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx > xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx > xxx xxx xxx xxx > > There are 133 'xxx' here. This appears to be the threshold. >= 133 > arguments causes a crash. < 133 arguments works ok. This is admittedly > more of a corner case, but it still shouldn't crash.
This should be fixed in the git tree now, thanks for the instructions how to reproduce the bug. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
