Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried out the new 4.5.8 release and it doesn't exhibit the same > symptoms. It runs the check and determines that I don't have a > working C stack overflow, but without using up all the RAM. > > Is this normal for a Linux system?
Yes, it's expected for coreutils 4.5.8, since it has a workaround for the problem. However, it's not clear to me that 4.5.8 is doing the right thing in general, since apparently some Linux kernels have extremely poor C stack overflow detection by default -- which is why the 4.5.7 test thrashed some people's systems -- and I suspect (without having the time to check this) that a similar problem might occur with coreutils when given weird test cases. I plan to look into this in more detail soon. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
