Ben Franksen wrote: > Ben Franksen wrote: >> So you try to allocate a ridiculous amount of memory which fails of > course. >... The problem > is that the call to pathconf returns 2147483647.
I looked up pathconf in the man pages ('man pathconf') and see: Some returned values may be huge; they are not suitable for allocating memory. Cheers -- Ben Franksen () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachm€nts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users