[OS X TeX] New world record!

[Jérôme Laurens]

Le 26 févr. 05, à 11:53, Jonathan Kew a écrit :

> On 26 Feb 2005, at 9:51 am, Jérôme Laurens wrote:
>
>> My HD was surprisingly full at startup today.
>> After some investigation, it appears that I played too much with the 
>> arabic example of the xetex distribution.
>> The result was "simply" a 47.3 Gb Arabic.log file...
>>
>
> Ouch!
>
> Could it be that you ran into the xetex infinite-[][][][]... bug? If 
> so, updating to the latest release should fix this.

Yes it was. I did not pay much attention to the log output while 
running the xetex task in some background context.

And AFAIR, removing the file occurred quite instantaneously. But I have 
no special system setting to really erase the file contents, I guess 
only the file map entries were deleted.

>
> If that wasn't it, I'd appreciate knowing what else caused it to run 
> away so badly.
>
> JK
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