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Bug#70762: textutils: tail segfault



On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 08:02:43PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 
> I guess the question is, at what point do we say, this is enough for
> practical purposes, we'll stop here? Or is it "OK" to let tail consume
> resources until it eats up everything and dies?

That's why we have resource limits.  The only bug here is that glibc
mallocs in fprintf which means that we can't print out a useful error
message when the memory is all used up.
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