From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 66375@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66375: 30.0.50; (error "Maximum buffer size exceeded") from (insert-file-contents "/dev/null")
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 13:56:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v8bgvzbj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFsbZ7bzcWU3Yz_zNHyHFQz_Axw92mD8mc9nWG7F2hbf+tF9_g@mail.gmail.com> (message from Sam Steingold on Sun, 8 Oct 2023 21:57:02 -0400)
> From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2023 21:57:02 -0400
> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, 66375@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On Sat, 7 Oct 2023 at 01:54, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
> > > Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 13:11:35 -0400
> > > emacs -Q
> > >
> > > (insert-file-contents "/dev/null")
> > > ==>
> > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Maximum buffer size exceeded")
> > > insert-file-contents("/dev/null")
> >
> > This is a "feature".
>
> this is new behavior.
> I used /dev/null as "empty gnu score file since forever"
You still can do that, you just need to use a non-nil END argument.
And maybe we will find a better solution.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-09 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-06 17:11 bug#66375: 30.0.50; (error "Maximum buffer size exceeded") from (insert-file-contents "/dev/null") Sam Steingold
2023-10-07 5:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-07 6:43 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-07 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-09 1:57 ` Sam Steingold
2023-10-09 10:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-10-15 15:43 ` Sam Steingold
2023-10-15 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-15 16:44 ` Sam Steingold
2023-10-15 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-14 16:46 ` Ed Santiago
2023-12-14 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
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