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-rw-r--r--lib/alaveteli_external_command.rb4
-rw-r--r--lib/mail_handler/mail_handler.rb3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/alaveteli_external_command.rb b/lib/alaveteli_external_command.rb
index ac91a5867..fbdee8a62 100644
--- a/lib/alaveteli_external_command.rb
+++ b/lib/alaveteli_external_command.rb
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ module AlaveteliExternalCommand
# :stdin_string - stdin string to pass to the process
# :binary_output - boolean flag for treating the output as binary or text (only significant
# ruby 1.9 and above)
+ # :memory_limit - maximum amount of memory (in bytes) available to the process
def run(program_name, *args)
# Run an external program, and return its output.
# Standard error is suppressed unless the program
@@ -38,6 +39,9 @@ module AlaveteliExternalCommand
if opts.has_key? :binary_output
xc.binary_mode = opts[:binary_output]
end
+ if opts.has_key? :memory_limit
+ xc.memory_limit = opts[:memory_limit]
+ end
xc.run(opts[:stdin_string] || "", opts[:env] || {})
if xc.status != 0
diff --git a/lib/mail_handler/mail_handler.rb b/lib/mail_handler/mail_handler.rb
index d9ebee854..22ba26b97 100644
--- a/lib/mail_handler/mail_handler.rb
+++ b/lib/mail_handler/mail_handler.rb
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ module MailHandler
tempfile.flush
default_params = { :append_to => text, :binary_output => false }
if content_type == 'application/vnd.ms-word'
- AlaveteliExternalCommand.run("wvText", tempfile.path, tempfile.path + ".txt")
+ AlaveteliExternalCommand.run("wvText", tempfile.path, tempfile.path + ".txt",
+ { :memory_limit => 536870912 } )
# Try catdoc if we get into trouble (e.g. for InfoRequestEvent 2701)
if not File.exists?(tempfile.path + ".txt")
AlaveteliExternalCommand.run("catdoc", tempfile.path, default_params)