From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:11:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Fix buffer overflow in config parser
Message-ID: <49E5888D.2090607@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v3aca3lpl.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> 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?"

LONG_VALUE=$(printf "x%0.1021dx a", 7)

-- Hannes