On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 06:35:02AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR bin/28492; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
> To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: bin/28492 (more(1) doesn't handle NUL data blocks well)
> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:28:08 +0100
> 
>  Could this be caused by less trying to buffer a single 'line' of the file
>  into memory? and failing to find a <lf> character...

Yes, I think you're right.
I tried

    ksh -c "print -n a" > zxc
    cat zxc >> zxc
    ^C

to generate a large file of 'a's.  More behaves similarly in that it chews
up loads of memory but it is interruptible using ^C.  With /dev/zero it
doesn't seem to be.

$ ps l
  UID   PID  PPID  CPU PRI NI     VSZ    RSS WCHAN   STAT TTY       TIME COMMAND
  1000 29579   550  999  -5  0 1223572 277064 biowait D+   ttyp0  0:12.46 more zxc 

BTW, can anyone else reproduce this bug?
If it's only me, then I'm happy enough to close it.
As I wrote in the original report, it was just FYI.

Bob