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Date:      12 Dec 2000 21:31:28 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        assar@FreeBSD.ORG, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, kris@citusc.usc.edu, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Safe string formatting in the kernel
Message-ID:  <xzplmtlfkkf.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Warner Losh's message of "Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:25:03 -0700"
References:  <xzpelzd66qy.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <xzpsnnuq1hy.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20001211185610.A1741@citusc.usc.edu> <200012120259.eBC2xfb99004@earth.backplane.com> <5lhf4ap8cv.fsf@assaris.sics.se> <200012121825.LAA31285@harmony.village.org>

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Warner Losh <imp@village.org> writes:
> Just be careful that your dynamic string growing things don't violate
> the hard limit invariants in the kernel.  If it produces paths longer
> than 1023 characters, for example, it is wrong.

Code manipulating path names would specify a hard upper limit of
MAXPATHLEN.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


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