Bug#1033655: elpa-flycheck: Emacs28 / flycheck is spawning wild running shellcheck processes eating up the system memory (oom-kill)

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

Control: tag -1 unreproducible
Control: severity -1 important

H.-Dirk Schmitt <dirk@computer42.org> writes:

> Package: elpa-flycheck
> Version: 32~git.20200527.9c435db3-3
> Severity: grave
> X-Debbugs-Cc: none, H.-Dirk Schmitt <dirk@computer42.org>
>
>
> The combination of Emacs28 + elpa-flycheck + shellcheck in *bookworm*
> spawn never terminating shellcheck processes.  These are eating up the
> memory and trigger oom-kill.
>
> **This renders my system unstable.** It appears to be blocked minutes
> till the oem-kill cleans up some memory.

I can't duplicate this on a bookworm system. Does it happen for any
shell script, or some particular ones?

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