Hi Aurelian, Sorry about the lack of response. I never saw your replies, and only noticed (on the web) today that the bug is now closed due to lack of feedback.
The email address for me that was used in that bug report is invalid. The one above works. I can still reproduce the problem on an x86_64 unstable system using libc6 2.7-16: Here's a little more info: $ strace zsh -c 'ulimit -v 10000; strace ./a.out %$[5*2**25]d' ... open("/e/meyering/bin", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=10320, ...}) = 0 getdents(3, /* 123 entries */, 4096) = 4080 getdents(3, /* 113 entries */, 4096) = 4072 brk(0xdf2000) = 0xdd1000 mmap(NULL, 1048576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ $ cat snprintf-test-debbug.c #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { char buf[200]; char *fmt = argv[1]; if (argc < 2) return 1; return snprintf (buf, sizeof buf, fmt, 1); } Sorry, but I cannot downgrade to an older glibc on this system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]