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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: segfault with exceedingly long path
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:49:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <140117174902.ZM7366@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140118002033.GY27889@sym.noone.org>

On Jan 18,  1:20am, Axel Beckert wrote:
}
} this is a forward of http://bugs.debian.org/418199

This is a known issue and unlikely ever to be fixed.  Various parts
of the shell rely on system limits such as PATH_MAX which cannot be
dynamically changed.  There's a comment with some explanation around
lines 109-137 of Src/compat.c.

The upshot is that if you try hard enough you can always create a path
that will exceed some limit or other.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-18  1:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-18  0:20 Axel Beckert
2014-01-18  1:49 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2014-01-18  9:11   ` Axel Beckert
2014-01-19 19:10   ` Peter Stephenson
2014-01-19 21:35     ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-19 22:13       ` Simon Ruderich
2014-01-20  0:02         ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-20  1:10           ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-20  1:44             ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-20  3:20             ` Bart Schaefer
2014-02-24 14:38             ` Oliver Kiddle
2014-02-24 15:38               ` Bart Schaefer

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