Re: Obscure overflow with very long path; completion

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

David Remahl wrote:
> Summary:
> Some very special circumstances triggers a buffer overflow of some  
> kind (I believe it is on the heap, but I have not had time to look  
> into it in detail) in the cd builtin.

I couldn't get this to happen with Fedora Core 3 on x86.  It's possible
it's some library bug, but I agree it's more likely there's some
well-masked problem in memory management in zsh.

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