GNU bug report logs - #13098
[PATCH] cut.c: Fix memory leak

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Message #25 received at 13098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: xojoc <at> gmx.com, 13098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13098: [PATCH] cut.c: Fix memory leak
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.

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