#!/bin/sh # Ensure that cut does not allocate mem for large ranges # Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src print_ver_ cut getlimits_ vm=$(get_min_ulimit_v_ cut -b1 /dev/null) \ || skip_ "this shell lacks ulimit support" # sed script to subtract one from the input. # Each input line should consist of a positive decimal number. # Each output line's number is one less than the input's. # There's no limit (other than line length) on the number's magnitude. subtract_one=' s/$/@/ : again s/0@/@9/ s/1@/0/ s/2@/1/ s/3@/2/ s/4@/3/ s/5@/4/ s/6@/5/ s/7@/6/ s/8@/7/ s/9@/8/ t again ' # Ensure we can cut up to our sentinel value. # This is currently SIZE_MAX, but could be raised to UINTMAX_MAX # if we didn't allocate memory for each line as a unit. # Don't use expr to subtract one, since SIZE_MAX may exceed its maximum value. CUT_MAX=$(echo $SIZE_MAX | sed "$subtract_one") # From coreutils-8.10 through 8.20, this would make cut try to allocate # a 256MiB bit vector. (ulimit -v $vm && cut -b$CUT_MAX- /dev/null > err 2>&1) || fail=1 # Up to and including coreutils-8.21, cut would allocate possibly needed # memory upfront. Subsequently extra memory is no longer needed. (ulimit -v $vm && cut -b1-$CUT_MAX /dev/null >> err 2>&1) || fail=1 # Explicitly disallow values above CUT_MAX (ulimit -v $vm && returns_ 1 cut -b$SIZE_MAX /dev/null 2>/dev/null) || fail=1 (ulimit -v $vm && returns_ 1 cut -b$SIZE_OFLOW /dev/null 2>/dev/null) || fail=1 compare /dev/null err || fail=1 Exit $fail