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Re: Strange error with cat (coreutils 4.5.2) on HP/UX
From: |
Petter Reinholdtsen |
Subject: |
Re: Strange error with cat (coreutils 4.5.2) on HP/UX |
Date: |
13 Oct 2002 00:36:00 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 |
[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> I get the message 'cat: memory exhausted' when trying to run 'cat' on
> a big file across rsh to a HP/UX box. The problem goes away when I
> try to do this in an interactive shell, or if I pipe the output from
> cat through dd:
I've tracked it down to a problem with fstat()/st_blksize when stdout
is sent through rsh. I used this code to test:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
struct stat stat_buf;
fstat(STDOUT_FILENO, &stat_buf);
printf("st_blksize=%d(0x%x) high=%d low=%d\n", stat_buf.st_blksize,
stat_buf.st_blksize >> 16,
stat_buf.st_blksize & 0xffff);
return 0;
}
When I run it using an interactive shell on the HP/UX box:
st_blksize=65536(0x10000) high=1 low=0
If I run it using 'rsh host testprog', the output is worse:
st_blksize=2147421096(0x7fff0ba8) high=32767 low=2984
If I instead use dd in front (rsh snipe "/tmp/foo |dd"), I get this:
st_blksize=8192(0x2000) high=0 low=8192'.
Perhaps the code in cat.c should check for insanely large values, and
not try to call xmalloc() with any large number?
Here is a stupid patch to fix the problem. I'm not sure if this is
the right fix, but at least GNU cat works again on HP/UX.
diff -ur src-4.5.2/src/cat.c src-4.5.2-local/src/cat.c
--- src-4.5.2/src/cat.c 2002-09-29 23:25:03.000000000 +0200
+++ src-4.5.2-local/src/cat.c 2002-10-13 00:32:51.000000000 +0200
@@ -804,6 +804,10 @@
--version, or --help) were specified, use `cat', otherwise use
`simple_cat'. */
+ /* Special case for HP/UX 11.00 */
+ if (outsize > 0x20000) /* Avoid xmalloc() on very huge numbers */
+ outsize = DEV_BSIZE;
+
if (options == 0)
{
insize = max (insize, outsize);