GNU bug report logs - #14752
sort fails to fork() + execlp(compress_program) if overcommit limit is reached

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Petros Aggelatos <petrosagg <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 05:23:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Azat Khuzhin <a3at.mail <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14752 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14752: [PATCH] sort: print warning when fork() failed for --compress-program
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 22:10:57 +0100

On 05/26/2014 10:00 PM, Azat Khuzhin wrote:
>> So the issue here is that sort is allocating
>> a large buffer up front thus impacting the fork().
>> Really sort(1) should be trying to avoid this issue
>> in the first place, and the issue is already logged at:
>> http://bugs.gnu.org/14752
> 
> Yes this is the same as I linked above.
> Does any body have a patch for this, or should I start working on this?

I was waiting for a patch that didn't materialize.
I'll have a look myself now.

thanks,
Pádraig.
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