Bug #4330: IO.popen case Segmentation Fault if take a long string.

• Status: Closed
• Priority: Normal
• Assignee: kosaki (Motohiro KOSAKI)
• Target version: 1.9.3
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-01-27 trunk 30668) [i386-mswin32_100]
• Backport: 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN

[kosaki (Motohiro KOSAKI)]

=begin
following script cause segmentation fault.

ruby -e 'IO.popen(["c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe "+"a
"*10_000_000, "hoge"])'
=end

[kosaki (Motohiro KOSAKI)]

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

=begin
This issue was solved with changeset r30670.
Motohiro, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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• win32/win32.c (rb_w32_aspawn): get rid of too huge alloca(). [Bug #4330] =end