Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [PATCH] Memory leak in visor.c and ftdi_sio.c

[Peter Horton]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 05:34:41PM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
> 
> A related problem with the current implementation is that is easy to 
> run out of memory by running something similar to this:
> 
>  # cat /dev/zero > /dev/ttyUSB0
> 

I got bitten by this a couple of days ago. There is effectively no write
flow control at all, it just sucks up memory ...

P.
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