From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>, Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Cc: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Wataru Noguchi" <wnoguchi.0727@gmail.com>,
"Erik Faye-Lund" <kusmabite@gmail.com>,
"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
"René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>, msysGit <msysgit@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent buffer overflows when path is too big
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:02:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52657A3D.8090609@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8BQ=qzXbMT9OSeQ+aDjLe5ogkUMZzdUhK0ObJP+VHkYvQ@mail.gmail.com>
Am 21.10.2013 03:31, schrieb Duy Nguyen:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My main motive was to not *stop* the process when a long path is met.
>> Because somebody created a repository on Linux with a long file-name
>> doesn't mean you should not be able to clone it *at all* on Windows.
>
> That should be handled at the Windows compatibility layer if Windows
> cannot handle long paths as Linux
Naah... PATH_MAX is a silly, arbitrary limit. The Git data model does
not forbid paths longer than PATH_MAX, be it 4096 or 260. A generic
solution is needed.
> (or maybe at higher level to skip
> checking out those paths).
More like this, yeah.
-- Hannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-21 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-28 21:17 [PATCH] mingw-multibyte: fix memory acces violation and path length limits Wataru Noguchi
2013-09-28 23:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2013-09-29 2:56 ` Wataru Noguchi
2013-09-29 11:01 ` [msysGit] " Stefan Beller
2013-10-01 13:37 ` Wataru Noguchi
2013-09-30 17:00 ` René Scharfe
2013-09-30 21:02 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-10-01 13:35 ` Wataru Noguchi
2013-10-02 22:26 ` Wataru Noguchi
2013-10-03 17:25 ` Antoine Pelisse
2013-10-03 17:36 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-10-05 11:39 ` Wataru Noguchi
2013-10-19 10:52 ` [PATCH] Prevent buffer overflows when path is too big Antoine Pelisse
2013-10-20 5:47 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-10-20 6:05 ` [msysGit] " Ondřej Bílka
2013-10-20 6:27 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-10-20 7:39 ` [msysGit] " Ondřej Bílka
2013-10-20 10:33 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-10-20 17:57 ` Antoine Pelisse
2013-10-21 1:31 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-10-21 19:02 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2013-10-21 19:07 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-10-21 19:14 ` Jeff King
2013-10-21 19:32 ` Jeff King
2013-10-23 12:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] entry.c: convert checkout_entry to use strbuf Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-10-23 12:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] entry.c: convert write_entry " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-10-23 17:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-24 1:23 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-10-24 19:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-24 23:47 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-10-23 12:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] entry.c: convert checkout_entry " Antoine Pelisse
2013-10-23 13:04 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-10-23 13:06 ` Antoine Pelisse
2013-10-23 17:29 ` Jeff King
2013-10-23 17:34 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-10-23 17:52 ` Jeff King
2013-10-23 18:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-23 18:10 ` Jeff King
2013-10-24 1:55 ` [PATCH v2] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-10-23 12:55 ` [PATCH] Prevent buffer overflows when path is too big Duy Nguyen
2013-11-26 18:39 ` [PATCH] Prevent buffer overflows when path is too long Antoine Pelisse
2013-11-26 19:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-29 12:12 ` Antoine Pelisse
2013-12-14 11:31 ` Antoine Pelisse
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