On 07 Oct 2005 at 10h10, Paul Eggert wrote:

Hi, 

> Coreutils tail should also report an explicit error, when you run out
> of main memory.  (You evidently didn't wait long enough.  :-)

I did wait until it got killed (SIGKILL) by the kernel. Memory
overcommit usually prevents malloc() from returning NULL...

Not a big problem anyway.
-- 
Colin


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