From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:38:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Fix buffer overflow in config parser
Message-ID: <7v3aca3lpl.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904142340350.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

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?"