ksh shell hangs if setting variable from command that produces more than 120k
Issue
On ksh-20120801-10.el6_5.3 there is a problem that following command will not come back with a result for at least 1 hour
$ FILES=`find /usr/include -type f`
- where find brings a huge amount of files
$ find /usr/include -type f |wc -l
10002
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
ksh-20120801-10.el6_5.3.x86_64
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