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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>,
	gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org, markus.heidelberg@web.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Fix buffer overflow in config parser
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:38:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3aca3lpl.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904142340350.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:41:14 +0200 (CEST)")

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Thomas Jarosch wrote:
>
>>  t/t1303-wacky-config.sh |    9 ++++++++-
>
> I like the name!
>
>> +LONG_VALUE=`perl -e 'print "x" x 1023," a"'`
>
> But should it not be guarded against NO_PERL?

The right question to ask is a rhetorical "do we need perl to do this?"

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-14 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-14 21:28 [PATCH v2] Fix buffer overflow in config parser Thomas Jarosch
2009-04-14 21:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-14 21:47   ` Thomas Jarosch
2009-04-15  7:50     ` Jeff King
2009-04-15  7:53       ` Jeff King
2009-04-14 22:38   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-04-15  7:11     ` Johannes Sixt
2009-04-15  7:39       ` Johannes Sixt
2009-04-17 12:05         ` [PATCH v3] " Thomas Jarosch
2009-04-17 13:16           ` Johannes Schindelin

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