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Re: [PATCH] fix infinite loop eating all the memory
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Colin Leroy |
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Re: [PATCH] fix infinite loop eating all the memory |
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Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:13:47 +0200 |
On 07 Oct 2005 at 10h10, Paul Eggert wrote:
Hi,
> Coreutils tail should also report an explicit error, when you run out
> of main memory. (You evidently didn't wait long enough. :-)
I did wait until it got killed (SIGKILL) by the kernel. Memory
overcommit usually prevents malloc() from returning NULL...
Not a big problem anyway.
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Colin