Re: bin/8681 (grep may bomb out with "memory exhausted")

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/8681; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/8681 (grep may bomb out with "memory exhausted")
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:24:12 +0000

 On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 09:20:48PM +0000, dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
  > I can:
  > [...]
 
 1024k isn't enough to do anything, so that doesn't actually count.
 
 however, with limits of 102400k:
    % grep foo /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
        241
    % grep foo biggy 
    grep: memory exhausted
    Exit 1
    % 
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost