Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 22:02:27 +0200 From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grep memory footage Message-ID: <20011004220227.A78588@gvr.gvr.org> In-Reply-To: <200110041849.f94InnE01299@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:49:49AM -0700 References: <20011004180356.A76896@gvr.gvr.org> <200110041849.f94InnE01299@mass.dis.org>
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On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:49:49AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > It's a known bug in grep; there are probably a bunch of PRs outstanding > on it. We need grep to be updated. > From looking at the source, it seems that the lates version still seems to have the same problem. The problem seems to be in grep.c:grep(), where the variable save seems to ever increase. But the code is so amazingly hairy that I cannot figure out why. -Guido To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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