[ksh93-integration-discuss] Maximum string length in ksh?

[Roland Mainz]

David Korn wrote:
> > >
> > > In ksh93n (released in 2002), the indexed array size was changed to 67,108,863
> > .
> > > although it was incorrectly documented as 16Megs.
> >
> > Just curious: Why is there a limit ?
> 
> At this point not a very good reason.  The shell will allocate at least
> n*sizeof(void*) bytes for an array whose larges element is n.
> By having a limit, the shel can catch erroneous allocation sizes
> and in some cases prevent the process from running out of memory.

Isn't this already covered by "ulimit"&co. ? Or do you mean
"user-specified erroneous values" which may cause "runaway" allocations
?

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Bye,
Roland

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