From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
Subject: Size limits
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:42:12 -0400
Date: 2003-10-24T13:42:12-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1067017332.153433@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> (raw)
You know how I usually rail against arbitrary buffer size limits
in programs? Today we encountered an extraordinarily stupid one in
the standard UNIX utility xargs. It complains and then dumps core
if a filename used in an "{}" insertion exceeds 255 characters.
Full pathnames longer than that are perfectly legal, of course.
Naturally GNU xargs works fine.
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2003-10-24 19:51 ` Size limits Frank J. Lhota
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