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Re: Sensitive/critical bug found?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Andreas Eibach <ae_cygwin at web dot de>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:41:31 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Sensitive/critical bug found?
- References: <510129965@web.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Andreas Eibach wrote:
> 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)
>
> [snip]
> $ 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".
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PEBKAC>, and not Cygwin-specific, either. Of
course grep would look for "threads_got_initialized" in every file in the
current directory, *including out2.log*! And it'll keep appending the
results to that same out2.log.
> $ find . -name '*' | xargs grep -i 'threads_got_initialized' | tee out2.log
>
> works, though.
>
> Can anyone of you reproduce this behavior?
HTH,
Igor
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