Re: bug#13530: head: memory exhausted when printing all from stdin but last P/E bytes

[Pádraig Brady]

On 06/02/2013 04:46 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> diff --git a/tests/misc/head-c.sh b/tests/misc/head-c.sh
> index 37a86ce..a5b6c6a 100755
> --- a/tests/misc/head-c.sh
> +++ b/tests/misc/head-c.sh
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
>  . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
>  print_ver_ head
>  require_ulimit_v_
> +getlimits_
> 
>  # exercise the fix of 2001-08-18, based on test case from Ian Bruce
>  echo abc > in || framework_failure_
> @@ -31,6 +32,6 @@ esac
>  # Only allocate memory as needed.
>  # Coreutils <= 8.21 would allocate memory up front
>  # based on the value passed to -c
> -(ulimit -v 20000; head --bytes=-E < /dev/null) || fail=1
> +(ulimit -v 20000; head --bytes=-$SSIZE_MAX < /dev/null) || fail=1

+1

thanks!
Pádraig.