bin/50461: ctm cannot handle the large files currently created.

[Julian Stacey]

The following reply was made to PR bin/50461; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Julian Stacey" <jhs at berklix.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc: stephen at cauchy.math.missouri.edu
Subject: Re: bin/50461: ctm cannot handle the large files currently created.
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 03:59:10 +0200 (CEST)

 ] There is a test for MAXSIZE in ctm.h.  MAXSIZE is currently too small.  But
 ] actually it seems that MAXSIZE really has very little purpose, so it seems
 ] better to simply remove the test.
 
 I emailed Stephen (PR originator):
 > If anything ever breaks & goes berserk, we'll be a lot more grateful
 > with a limit of 5M 10M or whatever, rather than 1G, lots of people
 > pay money for 1G , & some /var inc. all mine would explode :-)
 
 & Stephen wrote back:
 > Point taken.  
 > Perhaps you could send a message to this effect as a follow up to my PR:
 
 Stephen generates the deltas, he'd best decide the limit, but for info:
 cvs-cur.9039.gz was 29M BTW
 
 Julian Stacey       Freelance Systems Engineer, Unix & Net Consultant, Munich.
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