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Re: Coredump on large emails

2001-12-05 18:02:41
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% limit
cputime         unlimited
filesize        unlimited
datasize        unlimited
stacksize       8192 kbytes
coredumpsize    unlimited
memoryuse       unlimited
descriptors     1024
memorylocked    unlimited
maxproc         3583
openfiles       1024

That stack size limit of 8 megs. looks suspicious.  Does procmail use
alloca (I'm too lazy to look for the source right now)?

I sincerely hope it is not using alloca.
A disgusting non-portable practise used by lazy programmers!
There ought to be a law against it.
The stack is not meant to be used as a self-disposable heap.

Sorry .. butting in here ..

-- 
Regards
Cliff


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