H. S. Teoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But the original bug seems to be more of an issue: shouldn't it be a bug > that tail chews up infinite amounts of memory when it can't find an > end-of-line char? IMHO, tail should just bail out when it finds a line > which is more than, say 10MB long (I'm being generous about limits here). > I mean, when there is no newline for 10MB's worth of data, is there even > any usefulness to tail anymore? I just can't imagine any scenario where > it'd actually do anything *useful*.
No, we should not impose arbitrary limits on applications. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
