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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: v2.03 refresh issue - passing 3K argument list [was Re: A new bug?]
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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 09:39:43 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <3C26F9C5.15660.131637@localhost> from "Mark E." at Dec 24, 2001 09:47:49 AM
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> > I think that's the change in glob Mark mentioned: there's a 2000-character
> > buffer there used for globbing, and using quotes makes this a single
> > argument that needs to fit into that buffer.
> 
> And Bash 2.04's dosexec.c has a workaround (search for '2000') to not allow 
> arguments over 2000 bytes long to prevent a crash because of the overflow 
> bug. Bash 2.05 has no such protection since it's meant to be used with libc 
> 2.04. 

So even fixing glob in a refresh would not make this work with bash 2.04?
If so, maybe it's not worth trying to do this in a refresh...