[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #40230] Memory leak in putenv

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #40230 (project octave):

For the record, this remaining strange behavior is probably due to exec()
failing in a documented way because of the size of the environment. Octave
could attempt to put a cap on the total size of the environment, but I'd call
that one out of scope.

For comparison, here's a bash command line that gives the error that you're
probably seeing with the pager:


$ foo=`printf "%0*d" $((8*1024*1024)) 0` /bin/true
bash: /bin/true: Argument list too long


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