Colin Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In this patch however, there was no silent truncation but an > explicit error.
Coreutils tail should also report an explicit error, when you run out of main memory. (You evidently didn't wait long enough. :-) Running out of memory is not an arbitrary limit, so it's OK for tail to report an error and exit in that case. But a 1 MiB limit is arbitrary (and rather small these days), and it's not OK for tail to impose such a limit. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
