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From:	Jim Meyering <jim AT meyering DOT net>
To:	Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: "du -b --files0-from=-" running out of memory
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Date:	Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:25:38 +0100
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Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net> wrote:
> [adding the upstream coreutils list]
> According to Barry Kelly on 11/23/2008 6:24 AM:
>> I have a problem with du running out of memory.
>>
>> I'm feeding it a list of null-separated file names via standard input,
>> to a command-line that looks like:
>>
>>   du -b --files0-from=-

Thank you for the report.
(thanks, Erik for the Cc)

du's --files0-from option reads the entire list of
file names into memory before processing the first name.

That bug should be fixed very quickly ;-)

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