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Date:      Sat, 17 Mar 2001 13:07:08 -0800
From:      Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org>
Cc:        "Alexandr Kovalenko" <neve_ripe@yahoo.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Not only ftpd's problem with ls */../*..... 
Message-ID:  <200103172107.f2HL7Ea02611@cwsys.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 18 Mar 2001 08:18:08 %2B1200." <LNBBIBDBFFCDPLBLLLHFOEEJJHAA.juha@saarinen.org> 

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In message <LNBBIBDBFFCDPLBLLLHFOEEJJHAA.juha@saarinen.org>, "Juha 
Saarinen" wr
ites:
> :: problem with glob is not only ftpd's problem.
> :: 
> :: The folowing was run from regular user...
> :: 
> :: time ls */../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*
> :: Out of memory.
> :: 8.990u 64.850s 1:57.38 62.9%    0+0k 0+0io 2784pf+10305w
> 
> I get this:
> 
> $ time ls */../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*
> /bin/ls: Argument list too long
> 
> real    0m1.503s
> user    0m0.195s
> sys     0m1.305s
> 
> 4.2-STABLE.
> 

You probably have more files and directories that Alexander does.


Regards,                         Phone:  (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert                        Fax:  (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team   Internet:  Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
Province of BC



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