core dump from cvs-status on large tree

[Bruce Robertson]

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In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, X toolkit)
 of 2004-08-31 on iceage
configured using `configure  --prefix=/users/brucer/share 
--exec-prefix=/users/brucer/sparc-sun-solaris2.8'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

ACTIONS:

on large cvs tree (21K files), did:
M-x cvs-status

RESULT:

1) message displayed in mini-buffer:
   "Error in process filter: Buffer exceeds maximum size"
2) unable to C-g C-g the 'process'
3) core dumped ~ 100Mbytes, saved it.

Recent input:
<help-echo> M-x b u g <return> C-a C-g C-g h a b u 
g <return> C-h a b u g <return> C-x 0 M-x r e o r t 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> p o r t = - e <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> - e m <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
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For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
call-interactively: Quit
keyboard-quit: Quit
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