On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 06:46:51PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > On 7/5/05, Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Debian byg 227621 (http://bugs.debian.org/227621) reports OOM problems > > processing /etc/group files with large lines. > > I can't find this in the change log now, but I note in perl590delta : > > For threaded Perls certain system database functions like getpwent() > and getgrent() now grow their result buffer dynamically, instead of > failing. This means that at sites with lots of users and groups the > functions no longer fail by returning only partial results. > > So I'd suggest to try to reproduce with bleadperl; if fixed in blead, > find and backport the fix. (should be straightforward :) > I find the analysis by "Steinar H. Gunderson" quite interesting. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=227621&msg=18 for his full analysis.
Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
