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head: memory exhausted when printing all from stdin but last P/E bytes

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: lei.zhang <at> uwaterloo.ca, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 13530 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#13530: head: memory exhausted when printing all from stdin but last P/E bytes
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:51:55 +0100

On 06/02/2013 04:46 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> diff --git a/tests/misc/head-c.sh b/tests/misc/head-c.sh
> index 37a86ce..a5b6c6a 100755
> --- a/tests/misc/head-c.sh
> +++ b/tests/misc/head-c.sh
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
>  . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
>  print_ver_ head
>  require_ulimit_v_
> +getlimits_
> 
>  # exercise the fix of 2001-08-18, based on test case from Ian Bruce
>  echo abc > in || framework_failure_
> @@ -31,6 +32,6 @@ esac
>  # Only allocate memory as needed.
>  # Coreutils <= 8.21 would allocate memory up front
>  # based on the value passed to -c
> -(ulimit -v 20000; head --bytes=-E < /dev/null) || fail=1
> +(ulimit -v 20000; head --bytes=-$SSIZE_MAX < /dev/null) || fail=1

+1

thanks!
Pádraig.

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