bug#66375: 30.0.50; (error "Maximum buffer size exceeded") from (insert-file-contents "/dev/null")

[Sam Steingold]

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"


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