> BASH wrongly allocates memory for lines read from redirected > standard input. If you use CMD << _EOF_WORD_ operator to > redirect standard input BASH will read following lines from > the command input (either tty or shell script) into > dynamically allocated memory until it encounters _EOF_WORD_. > The BASH allocates only 1000 bytes for first line regardless > of line length. I looked at the source code and this is what I > found in 'make_cmd.c': > > if (len + document_index >= document_size) > { > document_size = document_size ? 2 * (document_size + len) > : 1000; /* XXX */ > document = xrealloc (document, document_size); > } This was fixed a long time ago, with bash-2.02.1 for sure, which was released almost a year ago. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet) Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chetat_private
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