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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: The aspell / ispell tool, when given a a file with simple HTML will grow memory without bounds and fail to check the file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): aspell-0.33.7.1-21 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.cat >foo.html<<EOF <html> <head> <title>title of page</title> </head> <body> Some text in the body. </body> </html> EOF 2.aspell -c foo.html 3.aspell -c -H foo.html 4.ispell foo.html Actual Results: The aspell / ispell tool hangs while growing memory without bounds: strace -p 13598 ... brk(0x1466f000) = 0x1466f000 brk(0) = 0x1466f000 brk(0x14670000) = 0x14670000 brk(0) = 0x14670000 brk(0x14671000) = 0x14671000 brk(0) = 0x14671000 brk(0x14672000) = 0x14672000 brk(0) = 0x14672000 brk(0x14673000) = 0x14673000 brk(0) = 0x14673000 brk(0x14674000) = 0x14674000 brk(0) = 0x14674000 brk(0x14675000) = 0x14675000 brk(0) = 0x14675000 brk(0x14676000) = 0x14676000 brk(0) = 0x14676000 brk(0x14677000) = 0x14677000 brk(0) = 0x14677000 brk(0x14678000) = 0x14678000 brk(0) = 0x14678000 ... Expected Results: The foo.html file is spell checked. Additional info: This bug differs from bug #86033. The hang happens with and without -H. This bug differs from bug #79416. The file does not need an & to get aspell/ispell to hang.
I had written this bug thinking it was the content of the file that caused aspell/ispell to hang. Then while submitting the bug I (for grins) ran a spell check on the bug content and found to my surprise, that aspell/ispell worked even though the bug report contained HTML! Doing a little more investigation showed that it is the filename, not the contents, that causes aspell/ispell to hang. It one does: cp foo.html foo then: aspell -c foo ispell foo works. However: aspell -c -H foo hangs. I presume ispell foo.html converts into aspell -c -H foo.html which triggers the bug.
should be fixed with upgrade to 0.50