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Subject: [9fans] 'find'
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 09:57:58 -0700
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	grep pattern `{du -a /}

leads to something like "grep: virtual memory allocation failure."
Sorry, but Plan 9 isn't running right now, so that's from memory.
That used to work in 3rd. edition. I found a better 'find' in
Russ' scripts tarball, but it is an interesting problem.

I suspect that the message may be generated on behalf of 'grep'.
I looked at the 'grep' source and the only potential problem (?)
seen was a failure to close a file before search() returns
to main(), if read() returns less than zero; however, the
print() associated with that error isn't seen in grep's
output before the vm failure occurs. I'll find out where
the message comes from next time Plan 9 is up.