Bug #4315: Process.spawn cause Segmentation Fault if take a long string. (windows)

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: 1.9.3
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-01-24 trunk 30640) [i386-mswin32_100]

[kosaki (Motohiro KOSAKI)]

=begin
test.rb

spawn '"a"|'*100_000_000

ruby ./test.rb
=end

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

=begin
This issue was solved with changeset r30662.
Motohiro, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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• process.c (proc_exec_v, rb_proc_exec_n, rb_proc_exec)
  (proc_spawn_n, proc_spawn): get rid of too huge alloca().
  [ruby-core:34827], [ruby-core:34833]
  =end

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Related to Backport #7904: test_spawn_too_long_path(TestProcess) fails on PPC64 added