GNU bug report logs - #10064
sort: sometimes segfault with certain limits (using prlimit)

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>

Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:27:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: kzak <at> redhat.com, 10064 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10064: sort: sometimes segfault with certain limits (using prlimit)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:32:43 -0800

On 11/16/11 09:25, Bernhard Voelker wrote:

>   prlimit --stack=1000 --memlock=100000 --rss=1000 sort -u /dev/zero
> 
> Well, mostly (4/5 times) sort got correctly "Killed",
> but a segfault smells.

Sorry, I don't have prlimit and don't know what it does.
Can you reproduce the problem with a standard shell
and ulimit?

Or failing that, can you give a backtrace?
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