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SubjectRe: Command-line anomoly V2.3.35
> > IMHO, programs that depend on overwriting argv members without regard to
> > checking for buffer overflows are broken, especially from a portability
> > standpoint. The space for the args is allocated on the user stack at
> > exec time, and the limits are stored in the mm struct for the task (this
> > is from binfmt_elf.c). If you exceed that space you will spill into the
> > space for the environment variables.
> >
>
> Yes, but who checks environment variables anyway? <grin>
>
You may not care about the environment, but then you ought to worry
about what comes next. Unusual, but a program may run with no
environment or something really short.

Even the case of IP-adresses could get longish now that IP v6 is coming.

Helge Hafting

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