Bug 474114

Summary: command hang in ksh and cpu workload is high
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>
Component: mkshAssignee: Robert Scheck <redhat-bugzilla>
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Description Michal Hlavinka 2008-12-02 10:23:37 UTC
Description of problem:
command hang in ksh and cpu workload is high

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mksh-36-1.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a script like belowing:
# cat hang.sh 
#!/bin/ksh
alias ls="ls"
i=`ls`
echo $i

2. issuce the script
  # ./hang.sh

Actual Results:
  script hangs while executing  i=`ls`, and the cpu workload is nearly 100%

Expected Results:
   The script runs smoothly.


Additional Information:

# ps -e | grep hang
21776 pts/3    00:00:27 hang.sh

# strace -p 21776 
brk(0xa057000)                          = 0xa057000
brk(0xa078000)                          = 0xa078000
brk(0xa099000)                          = 0xa099000
brk(0xa0ba000)                          = 0xa0ba000
brk(0xa0db000)                          = 0xa0db000
brk(0xa0fc000)                          = 0xa0fc000
brk(0xa11d000)                          = 0xa11d000
...

# ltrace -p 21776 
__rawmemchr(0x9480688, 0, 0xbff7e808, 0x8049a6a, 0x9fb71a8)          =
0x948068a 
memset(0x80758a2, '\000', 63)                                        =
0x80758a2 
strcmp("ls", "ls")                                                   = 0
__ctype_b_loc()                                                      =
0xb7fdda84
__rawmemchr(0x9480688, 0, 0xbff7e808, 0x8049a6a, 0x9fb7210)          =
0x948068a 
memset(0x80758a2, '\000', 63)                                        =
0x80758a2 
strcmp("ls", "ls")                                                   = 0
__ctype_b_loc()                                                      =
0xb7fdda84
__rawmemchr(0x9480688, 0, 0xbff7e808, 0x8049a6a, 0x9fb7278)          =
0x948068a 
memset(0x80758a2, '\000', 63)                                        =
0x80758a2 
strcmp("ls", "ls")                                                   = 0
__ctype_b_loc()                                                      =
0xb7fdda84
__rawmemchr(0x9480688, 0, 0xbff7e808, 0x8049a6a, 0x9fb72e0)          =
0x948068a 
memset(0x80758a2, '\000

WARNING: when you try to reproduce this, mksh starts to consume more and more memory very quickly, so ulimit -m and ulimit -v to something lower than unlimited is very useful.

Comment 1 Michal Hlavinka 2008-12-02 10:28:37 UTC
my mistake, strace and ltrace are originally from pdksh, but this bug is easily reproducible with mksh

Comment 2 Robert Scheck 2008-12-02 10:30:27 UTC
Ehm, is it possible, that you're mixing up ksh and mksh? You wrote ksh above,
not mksh...

Comment 3 Michal Hlavinka 2008-12-02 11:18:31 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Ehm, is it possible, that you're mixing up ksh and mksh? You wrote ksh above,
> not mksh...

no, it's really mksh. I have ksh->mksh symlink

Comment 4 Robert Scheck 2008-12-02 11:21:04 UTC
Closing hereby - even if one is Fedora, other is EPEL. Same problem, once 
something comes up, I would push the update anyway to both.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 474115 ***