Daniel Fischer schrieb: > On Sunday 05 September 2010 21:52:44, Henning Thielemann wrote: >> Daniel Fischer schrieb: >>> Yes. Ordinarily, lines in text files aren't longer than a few hundred >>> characters, leaking those, who cares? >> I got several space leaks of this kind in the past. They are very >> annoying. They are especially annoying if input comes from the outside >> world, where people can attack them to crash your program because of >> memory exhaustion. > > That would likely be the case of long lines, wouldn't it? > I have trouble imagining a scenario where `lines' holding on to a few > hundred characters which could already be released causes a noticeable > space leak, let alone memory exhaustion.
I talked about an _attack_! I provide a program that processes external data (say a webserver, for instance one for an ICFP contest) and someone feeds it intentionally with megabytes of text without any line ending. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe