Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Jun 2004 00:16:25 +0100 | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [PATCH] Memory leak in visor.c and ftdi_sio.c | From | Peter Horton <> |
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On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 05:34:41PM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote: > > A related problem with the current implementation is that is easy to > run out of memory by running something similar to this: > > # cat /dev/zero > /dev/ttyUSB0 >
I got bitten by this a couple of days ago. There is effectively no write flow control at all, it just sucks up memory ...
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