bug#18892: few test failure with 'grep-2.20.72-d512'

2014-11-02 Thread Jim Meyering
Your total free memory is obviously larger than 2GiB, but remember that what's listed there is the total, while the offending usage required a *contiguous* 2GiB region. On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:56 PM,

bug#18892: few test failure with 'grep-2.20.72-d512'

2014-11-02 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 11/01/2014 10:39 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: Assaf Gordon wrote: $ ../../../src/grep -r '^' ; echo $? a:a b:b ../../../src/grep: c: Inappropriate file type or format ../../../src/grep: d: Inappropriate file type or format ../../../src/grep: e: Inappropriate file type or format 2 What

bug#18892: few test failure with 'grep-2.20.72-d512'

2014-11-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jim Meyering wrote: Your total free memory is obviously larger than 2GiB, but remember that what's listed there is the total, while the offending usage required a *contiguous* 2GiB region. My understanding of the kernel is that it allocates in 4K blocks and maps them to user space to appear

bug#18892: few test failure with 'grep-2.20.72-d512'

2014-11-02 Thread Norihiro Tanaka
Assaf Gordon assafgor...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/01/2014 10:39 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: Assaf Gordon wrote: $ ../../../src/grep -r '^' ; echo $? a:a b:b ../../../src/grep: c: Inappropriate file type or format ../../../src/grep: d: Inappropriate file type or format ../../../src/grep:

bug#18892: few test failure with 'grep-2.20.72-d512'

2014-11-02 Thread Paul Eggert
Norihiro Tanaka wrote: /* Tru64 5.1B uses errno == ENOTSUP. */ Ah, I see that you were working on the same bug I was. I don't think we need to worry about Tru64, partly because ENOTSUP would be troublesome anyway (does it mean that O_NOFOLLOW isn't supported? if so, 'grep' has other

bug#18892: few test failure with 'grep-2.20.72-d512'

2014-11-02 Thread Norihiro Tanaka
Norihiro Tanaka wrote: /* Tru64 5.1B uses errno == ENOTSUP. */ Ah, I see that you were working on the same bug I was. I don't think we need to worry about Tru64, partly because ENOTSUP would be troublesome anyway (does it mean that O_NOFOLLOW isn't supported? if so, 'grep' has other