Re: grep and memory problems with kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-19 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # the /dev directory indeed just lists a list of names wich are linked to # device driver files through the inode table # # so in fact you're grep-in the output of the /dev, if this contains some # control chars it might hang your grep command, you sho

Re: grep and memory problems with kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-19 Thread Moritz Schulte
David B. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # i do cd / > # > # grep -r hallo * > # > # und then cames a memory enhausted and the network is down. > > Well, since you're specifying -r, it's going recursively through > subdirectories ... I don't know for sure, but maybe it's running into > s

RE: grep and memory problems with kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-19 Thread Joris Lambrecht
nsole greetings, joris -Original Message- From: David B. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 2:01 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: grep and memory problems with kernel 2.4.1 To quote Thomas Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # i do cd / # # gr

Re: grep and memory problems with kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-19 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Thomas Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # i do cd / # # grep -r hallo * # # und then cames a memory enhausted and the network is down. Well, since you're specifying -r, it's going recursively through subdirectories ... I don't know for sure, but maybe it's running into some problems with so

grep and memory problems with kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-19 Thread Thomas Braun
hello group knows anyone this problem with the kernel 2.4.1 i do cd / grep -r hallo * und then cames a memory enhausted and the network is down. cu thomas.