On Apr 22, 2013, at 10:09 AM, Ben Franksen <ben.frank...@online.de> wrote:

> 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.
> 

That's really interesting… what version of libc are you using? And on what host 
OS? 

-Nick



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