RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches | Hacker News

Hacker News debated intermittent segfaults in RipGrep musl binaries during large searches and tried to pin down the cause.

Possible explanations included a Linux 7.0 plus musl 1.2.5 bug, a kernel page-table race, or hardware issues on a Threadripper system.

The thread also turned into a debate over an LLM-written bug report: some called it detailed, while others said it could be misleading or overly verbose.

The discussion underscored how hard rare crashes are to diagnose when kernel, libc, and hardware interactions may all be involved.