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    Hi!<br>
    <br>
    Thanks for reporting this! The following patch[1] should solve the
    problem. I'll let it run through our tests and then merge it to
    maint.<br>
    <br>
    Thanks,<br>
    Lukas<br>
    <br>
    [1] diff --git a/lib/stdlib/src/filelib.erl
    b/lib/stdlib/src/filelib.erl<br>
    index d532cea..b098d4c 100644<br>
    --- a/lib/stdlib/src/filelib.erl<br>
    +++ b/lib/stdlib/src/filelib.erl<br>
    @@ -264,6 +264,9 @@ ensure_dir(F) -><br>
         case do_is_dir(Dir, file) of<br>
            true -><br>
                ok;<br>
    +       false when Dir =:= F -><br>
    +           %% Protect against infinite loop<br>
    +           {error,einval};<br>
            false -><br>
                ensure_dir(Dir),<br>
                case <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:make_dir(Dir)">file:make_dir(Dir)</a> of<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    On 23/05/12 06:07, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:luc.tanguay@bell.ca">luc.tanguay@bell.ca</a> wrote:
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span
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              font-family:Arial">Hi.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;
              font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;
              font-family:Arial">I run R14B02 on Windows 2K8 64-bit
              server (but Erlang is
              32-bit).  But looking at the latest code from GitHub, the
              problem is still
              there.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;
              font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;
              font-family:Arial">When I try
              filelib:ensure_dir("Y:/toto.txt") and
              the drive "Y:" does not exist, the VM crashes after a few
              minutes
              with eheap_alloc cannot allocate 1425410620 bytes of
              memory (of type
              "heap").<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;
              font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;
              font-family:Arial">Looking at the Erlang source code for
              ensure_dir/1, and if
              I'm reading it right,  the endless loop is caused because
              the dirname in
              "Y:/toto.txt" is "Y:/" but "Y:/" is not
              considered a directory by do_is_dir/2. So a recursive call
              to ensure_dir/1 is
              done, and.....<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;
              font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;
              font-family:Arial">Is it really a bug?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;
              font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;
              font-family:Arial">Luc<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              MS"" lang="FR-CA">---</span></font><span lang="FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><em><i><font face="Arial" size="1"><span
                  style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR-CA">Le
                  cri du nourrisson est le résultat
                  de plusieurs années de recherche dans le domaine du
                  signal d'alarme.</span></font></i></em><span
            lang="FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><em><i><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="1"><span
                  style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet
                  MS"" lang="FR-CA">(Serge Bouchard)</span></font></i></em><span
            lang="FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
              style="font-size:
              10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR-CA">Luc Tanguay,
              ing./P.Eng.<br>
            </span></font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span
              style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet
              MS"" lang="FR-CA">Bell Canada<br>
              671 De La Gauchetière 4e étage,</span></font><span
            lang="FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet
              MS"" lang="FR-CA">Montréal H3B 2M8<br>
              514-786-6440<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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