Re: [PATCH] fix infinite loop eating all the memory

[Alfred M\. Szmidt]

   `tail -f /dev/zero` eats all the available memory and swap until
   tail gets killed by the OOM killer (on linux, at least).

Since /dev/zero is of "infinite" size, tail does the right thing in
reading it until all memory/swap is exhausted.

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| 4.1 Writing Robust Programs
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| Avoid arbitrary limits on the length or number of _any_ data structure,
| including file names, lines, files, and symbols, by allocating all data
| structures dynamically.  In most Unix utilities, "long lines are
| silently truncated".  This is not acceptable in a GNU utility.
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