Still buggy after all these years?

[Ross Casley]

There seems to be a bug in calendar.  When I try to run it today I wait a
long time, then I get several messages that egrep has run out of swap
space.  Now, calendar works by first running /usr/lib/calendar, which
generates a pattern that is then fed to egrep.  The pattern is supposed to
pick out the relevant lines from the calendar file.  My best guess is that
since today is a Friday and the month changes over the weekend,
/usr/lib/calendar generates an unusually long pattern.  Then egrep barfs
on it.  One might think that egrep would have got protected against this
sort of thing by now, but apparently not.

Has anybody else noticed this, or have a better explanation?

This machine is running Ultrix T3.1A-2 (Rev.24).  

-Ross Casley.