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

[Sam Steingold]

I am not sure what you mean here, sorry.
I am unable to use Gnus because of this new bug.

On Mon, 9 Oct 2023 at 06:57, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
> > Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2023 21:57:02 -0400
> > Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, 
> > 66375@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > 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"
>
> You still can do that, you just need to use a non-nil END argument.
>
> And maybe we will find a better solution.



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