Subject: Re: bug#13098: [PATCH] cut.c: Fix memory leak

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:57:59 +0000

On 12/08/2012 08:27 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> +# 2^31-1

> +# From coreutils-8.10 through 8.20, this would make cut try to allocate
> +# a 256MiB bit vector.  With a 20MB limit on VM, the following would fail.
> +(ulimit -v 20000; : | cut -b2147483647- > err 2>&1) || fail=1
> +
> +compare /dev/null err || fail=1

Perhaps use INT_MAX from getlimits?
In either case +1

thanks,
Pádraig.