segfault in grep 2.5.1

[Dean Pierce]

today i used the command [grep "foo" bar/*] on a directory that contained 
about 1,067,638 small text files.  the first time i did it it just kicked me 
out and said "segmentation fault".  when i tried again it killed my xterm.  
when i try to do it when not in X, it killed my shell and brought me back to 
the login prompt.  when i tried it on another directory that contained about 
433,549 of the same kind of file, it just told me that my argument list was 
too long.  i managed to get the intended task acomplished with [grep "foo" 
bar/ -r], but i just thought i should let you know, because it looked like a 
bug.  I run debian testing and i make sure to apt-get upgrade daily.  im 
running it with an athalon 2400 proc with 256megs of ram..  if i can give 
you any more information, just let me know.

                            - DEAN

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