From taavi@REDACTED  Sat Nov 22 23:49:07 2003
From: taavi@REDACTED (Taavi Talvik)
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 00:49:07 +0200 (EET)
Subject: Crashing erlang VM vith open_port
Message-ID: <20031123004212.Y52969@ttu.uninet.ee>


Following program crashes beam VM. Is it possible to check
available resources or magic version headers or received packet lenght
before trying to allocate silly amount of memory?

best regards,
taavi

-module(test).

-export([test/0]).

test() ->
    Port = erlang:open_port({spawn,"echo blaah blaah blaah blaah"},
                            [binary,{packet,4},exit_status]),
   loop().

loop() ->
   receive
        {'EXIT', Var, PosixCode} ->
            exit(PosixCode);
	Message ->
            io:format("Messgae=~p~n",[Message])
   end,
   loop().