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Re:My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39... by jrochkind1 on Thursday September 11, 2014 @06:53PM (#8305660)
I don't understand it, but the OP says this, implying the author agrees with you for any modern system, but not on 'old systems without working memory management'

> And unless old systems without working memory management must be supported, I don't see any harm in simply removing the call to the forget_all function towards the end of cp.c.

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Re:My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39... by MichaelGG on Thursday September 11, 2014 @07:08PM (#8305718)
How would such a system even work? Any abnormal process termination or bugs would mean eventually the system becomes unusable.
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Re:My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39... by gizmo686 on Thursday September 11, 2014 @07:23PM (#8305789)
The system would slowly leak memory until you reboot.
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Re:My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39... by icedchai on Thursday September 11, 2014 @08:46PM (#8306066)
Yep, I remember programming on such a system (Amiga) in the early 90's! Fun times.
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