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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh AT linux01 DOT gwdg DOT de>
Subject: Memory exhaustion with cp
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:37:30 +0000 (UTC)
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Hello,


in trying to recursively copy a directory, /bin/cp fails with memory exhaustion:

$ mkdir src
$ mkdir dest
$ cp -r src dest
cp: memory exhausted

I am using cp(fileutils) 4.1, downloaded this morning.
Does anybody have seen similar and/or have a fix for it?
The "machine" it runs on is normally equipped with 96 MB, and raising it to 192
MB did not solve the problem.


-Jan Engelhardt


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