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changeset 12461:673d93dccba1
canonicalize: reduce memory usage
canonicalize was returning a 4k buffer for everything, even though
the majority of canonical path names are much shorter. This
resulted in a lot of unused memory, which in turn made tar run
out of memory when tracking a lot of files:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2009-12/msg00011.html
* lib/canonicalize.c (canonicalize_filename_mode): Trim the
allocation to size.
Reported by Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
author | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> |
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date | Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:28:36 -0700 |
parents | 282eecca2301 |
children | f7383de75775 |
files | ChangeLog lib/canonicalize.c |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2009-12-19 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + canonicalize: reduce memory usage + * lib/canonicalize.c (canonicalize_filename_mode): Trim the + allocation to size. + Reported by Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>. + 2009-12-19 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> New module attribute 'Applicability'.