Filling up commands.getstatusoutput's buffer

[travislspencer at gmail.com]

Jeff Epler wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 03:10:49PM -0700, travislspencer at gmail.com wrote:
> How much output are you talking about?

Honestly, I don't know.  I came on to a project were they said they
were hitting up against some limit, and had a hack to work around it.
I just wondered if others had hit some limit too and found diffrent
workarounds.

> I tried outputs as large as
> about 260 megabytes without any problem. (RedHat 9, Python 2.2)
>
> >>> len(commands.getoutput("dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=512000 2>/dev/null"))
> 262144000
> >>> 512 * 512000
> 262144000

I tried the same tests on CentOS, Python 2.3.4 and on Solaris 9 w/
Python 2.3.3.  No problems.  

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Regards,

Travis Spencer