Package: grep Version: 2.5.1.ds2-5 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream I was trying to figure out why this caused grep to consume hundreds of megs of vram (yes, I know that zgrep is from the gzip package): time echo |zgrep -Ff /dev/stdin /tmp/Contents-i386
zgrep is a shell wrapper which does essentially: gunzip |grep So grep saw -Ff /dev/stdin, but stdin was not a newline, but rather a 200MB file (grep -Ff /tmp/Contents-i386 ./h). I think grep should have opened h to test its existence before reading the entire -Ff file, and compiling (?) the patterns list, or whatever it's doing... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
