I had a user ftp up a 100MB+ text file and then try opening it with pico.
Well, it brought the system to its knees, and it went unresponsive for
nearly an hour (128MB RAM, 8GB HDD, AMD K6-2/450) until I executed a
'shutdown -r' (and even that took several minutes to initiate).

Now maybe the user wasn't all that careful, but it seems innocent enough.

How is this not a security issue?  Seems to me that pico needs to be a
little more concerned about CPU usage when it opens a file.

Thanks.

Lee Howard



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