Re: Safely reading line by line


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Re: Safely reading line by line

by moritz (Cardinal)

on Jun 27, 2007 at 10:51 UTC ( [id://623581]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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I'd just impose a memory limit to the perl interpreter process, and die automatically if a line is too long.

Of course that's only possible if you don't mind losing some data from possibly manipulated sources, and don't leave damaged data structures behind (on disk, that is).

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Re^2: Safely reading line by line
by martin (Friar) on Jun 27, 2007 at 16:49 UTC

On my Debian GNU/Linux box I can call

ulimit -v 10000
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However, that is not all I wanted. I would like to be able to stop processing the input file as soon as its contents are known to be malformed and take whatever evasive action is most appropriate. This would rule out plainly crashing in many cases.

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