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Re: /bin/ls is impure!



On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:46:45AM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote:
> --> Now run ls.
> 
> Be prepared to abort it before it consumes all the available memory on your
> system.

Interesting. It just starts mallocing more and more memory, increasing
by 4 bytes at a time. gdb worked, but man wasn't happy, and neither
was top.

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