On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 04:00, Herbert Xu wrote: > > But the original bug seems to be more of an issue: shouldn't it be a bug > > that tail chews up infinite amounts of memory when it can't find an > > end-of-line char? IMHO, tail should just bail out when it finds a line > > which is more than, say 10MB long (I'm being generous about limits here). > > I mean, when there is no newline for 10MB's worth of data, is there even > > any usefulness to tail anymore? I just can't imagine any scenario where > > it'd actually do anything *useful*. > No, we should not impose arbitrary limits on applications. Sure, but it would also be reasonable to flush the buffer to the screen every (screensize/2) so that a human could follow it. -- Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net>
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