Bitmap export of HUGE size by mistake or sw error?

Hello,

I just experienced the following: I selected a path and exported it to a bitmap. A moment later its done. I did the same for a path right next to the first one. In fact, it is just a copy with another color. So it should be the same. Unexpectedly it just seemed to be stuck and it is calculating and calculating. I took a look at the file and it seems like it is exporting the whole (!) space of the document. When i try to open the file (which is still growing) (i am waiting this out because I did not save my recent work :( so.. ) .. the file can't be displayed because its too huge: Insufficient memory to store a 565686 by 856237 image; (i would call it huge)

So, i wonder why it does this, i wonder why it starts such a huge and super long lasting task without a warning like "this will take an hour - you'd better check your settings" and how can this happen anyways? I just selected a small path. It was not of that size.

Well, maybe it's a small bug with inkscape, maybe its a feature that could be improved to defuse such strange stuff by a warning or something.

Has anyone seen this before?

Regards,
arkibott