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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 9397@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9397: lib-src integer and memory overflow issues
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:59:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbov89pn4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E5ADAF3.1070301@cs.ucla.edu>

> Here's an example bug fixed by the patch: "ctags -u -o FOO *.c"
> crashes on Fedora 14 x86-64 if the file name FOO is longer than 8192
> bytes.

At least on my GNU/Linux system, "grep PATH.\*MAX /usr/include/**/*.h"
seems to suggest that file names longer than 4096 are not supported ;-)


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-29 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-29  0:18 bug#9397: lib-src integer and memory overflow issues Paul Eggert
2011-08-29 15:59 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-08-29 17:27   ` Paul Eggert
2011-09-04 21:56 ` bug#9397: patch committed Paul Eggert

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