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Date:      Thu, 4 Oct 2001 22:02:27 +0200
From:      Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: grep memory footage
Message-ID:  <20011004220227.A78588@gvr.gvr.org>
In-Reply-To: <200110041849.f94InnE01299@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:49:49AM -0700
References:  <20011004180356.A76896@gvr.gvr.org> <200110041849.f94InnE01299@mass.dis.org>

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On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:49:49AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> It's a known bug in grep; there are probably a bunch of PRs outstanding 
> on it.  We need grep to be updated.
> 

From looking at the source, it seems that the lates version still
seems to have the same problem.

The problem seems to be in grep.c:grep(), where the variable save
seems to ever increase. But the code is so amazingly hairy that I
cannot figure out why.

-Guido

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