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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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