thanks for the feedback on the topic of sfgetr() line limits its was a few years ago when we saw bad behavior on one of our systems at this point I don't recall which one it was
unix already has mechanisms to handle resource hogs: ulimit(2), setrlimit(2) and the ulimit(1) shell builtin if we remove the line limit then sfgetr() on a big enough line will get an sbrk() or mmap() error when trying to grow the line buffer and that error will make its way to a diagnostic at the command level ulimit -M (unlimited by default) can be used to limit the memory allocations in a process, including memory used by sfgetr() _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
