[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#418199: Fwd: Re: segfault with exceedingly long path [origin: schaefer at brasslantern.com]

[Axel Beckert]

Control: tag -1 + wontfix

Hi,

upstream said, this is an issue which is "unlikely ever to be fixed".
Marking as such.

----- Forwarded message from Bart Schaefer <schaefer at brasslantern.com> -----
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:49:02 -0800
From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer at brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers at zsh.org
Subject: Re: segfault with exceedingly long path

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.
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