Bug#240425: apache-utils: ab segfaults on big -n's

["Dmitry V. Sabanin" <sdmitry@lrn.ru>]

Package: apache-utils
Version: 1.3.29-1
Severity: normal


# /usr/sbin/ab -n 1000000000000 -c 2 http://localhost/
This is ApacheBench, Version 1.3d <$Revision: 1.70 $> apache-1.3
Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd,
http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright (c) 1998-2002 The Apache Software Foundation,
http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking localhost (be patient)
Segmentation fault

With -n lower, everything is fine. I guess error message could be showed
instead of segfaulting.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.0
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R

Versions of packages apache-utils depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb4.1                    4.1.25-16    Berkeley v4.1 Database Libraries [
ii  libexpat1                   1.95.6-8     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libssl0.9.7                 0.9.7c-5     SSL shared libraries
ii  perl [perl5]                5.8.3-2      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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