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#!/bin/sh
# Check that grep doesn't mishandle long matching lines.

. "${srcdir=.}/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ../src
expensive_

# Create a one-line file containing slightly more than 2 GiB.
echo x | dd bs=1024k seek=2048 >2G-plus-2 || framework_failure_

skip_diagnostic=

# These two patterns catch different kinds of
# failures due to internal integer overflows.
# However, the second one, '^.*x\(\)\1', provokes
# so much memory consumption via regexec.c that it renders
# some systems unusable.
for pattern in '^.*'; do
  diagnostic=$(LC_ALL=C grep -a "$pattern" 2G-plus-2 2>&1 >/dev/null)
  status=$?

  case $status,$diagnostic in
    0,*) ;;
    2,*': line too long for re_search')
       skip_diagnostic='regular expression library cannot handle the test' ;;
    137,''|2,*': memory exhausted')
       # The 137/no-diagnostic arises when the kernel OOM-kills grep.
       skip_diagnostic='not enough main memory to run the test' ;;
    *) fail=1 ;;
  esac
done

case $fail,$skip_diagnostic in
0,?*) skip_ "$skip_diagnostic" ;;
esac

Exit $fail