Re: [bug-grep] Re: grep: very large file with no newline causes trouble

[Benno Schulenberg]

Stepan Kasal wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 05:54:34PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Here, I suggest you just set errno not to saved_errno
> > but rather to ENOMEM, since saved_errno's value is not useful.
>
> yes, you are right.  I attached an updated version of the patch.
>
> Is anyone willing to test it?

It works for me here.

Should it be a suppressible error though?  The Open Group page says:  
"-s  Suppress the error messages ordinarily written for nonexistent 
or unreadable files. Other error messages shall not be suppressed."

Also, instead of "Cannot allocate memory" I would prefer to see 
something more descriptive like "File too big" or "Out of memory 
while searching for end-of-line".

Benno