Re: segfault with exceedingly long path

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 18,  1:20am, Axel Beckert wrote:
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} this is a forward of http://bugs.debian.org/418199

This is a known issue and unlikely ever to be fixed.  Various parts
of the shell rely on system limits such as PATH_MAX which cannot be
dynamically changed.  There's a comment with some explanation around
lines 109-137 of Src/compat.c.

The upshot is that if you try hard enough you can always create a path
that will exceed some limit or other.