From 1fe218888aace1703f78e0af0059d7a15485bf7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:34:46 +0000
Subject: head: with --bytes=-N only allocate memory as needed

* src/head.c (elide_tail_bytes_pipe): Don't use calloc as that
bypasses memory overcommit due to the zeroing requirement.
Also realloc rather than malloc the pointer array to avoid
dependence on overcommit entirely.
* tests/misc/head-c.sh: Add a test case.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/13530
---
 tests/misc/head-c.sh | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'tests')

diff --git a/tests/misc/head-c.sh b/tests/misc/head-c.sh
index 6807c4d5a..eada8d550 100755
--- a/tests/misc/head-c.sh
+++ b/tests/misc/head-c.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# exercise the fix of 2001-08-18, based on test case from Ian Bruce
+# exercise head -c
 
 # Copyright (C) 2001-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
@@ -19,12 +19,17 @@
 . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
 print_ver_ head
 
+# exercise the fix of 2001-08-18, based on test case from Ian Bruce
 echo abc > in || framework_failure_
-
 (head -c1; head -c1) < in > out || fail=1
 case "$(cat out)" in
   ab) ;;
   *) fail=1 ;;
 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
+
 Exit $fail
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