Hi, * Clint Adams [2009-05-06 04:12]: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 02:35:05AM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: > > export BLA=$(perl -e "print 'A' x 100000000;") > > > > results in zsh segfaulting: > > [335969.515454] zsh[29005]: segfault at 7fff1b357858 ip 7fb5184a5855 sp 7fff1b357860 error 6 in libc-2.9.so[7fb518471000+149000] > > The segfault is not in the assignment but in the export (zputenv). Yes: gdb> bt #0 0x00007f7d977fb855 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x0000000000470725 in zputenv () #2 0x0000000000470853 in addenv () #3 0x000000000046b2b5 in export_param () #4 0x000000000046b879 in setstrvalue () #5 0x000000000046cd3a in assignsparam () #6 0x00000000004170d5 in ?? () #7 0x00000000004194b2 in bin_typeset () #8 0x0000000000410418 in execbuiltin () #9 0x0000000000430668 in ?? () #10 0x000000000042bf65 in ?? () #11 0x000000000042b15f in ?? () #12 0x000000000042a867 in execlist () #13 0x000000000042a2f2 in execode () #14 0x0000000000445bfa in loop () #15 0x0000000000448a62 in zsh_main () #16 0x000000000040f9b7 in main () -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - nion@jabber.ccc.de - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.