On 12/08/2012 08:27 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
+# 2^31-1
+# From coreutils-8.10 through 8.20, this would make cut try to allocate +# a 256MiB bit vector. With a 20MB limit on VM, the following would fail. +(ulimit -v 20000; : | cut -b2147483647- > err 2>&1) || fail=1 + +compare /dev/null err || fail=1
Perhaps use INT_MAX from getlimits? In either case +1 thanks, Pádraig.
