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Re: Length of argument list

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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Length of argument list
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:20:36 +0100
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2015-06-11 11:27:16 +0200, Manfred Lotz:
[...]
> I know but when dealing with files I never take into account
> that file names contain newlines. IMHO, only crazy people create file
> names which contain newlines.
[...]

Crazy, careless (copy-paste in a terminal) or malicious.

There are lots of security vulnerabilties around that are caused
by code that assumes file names cannot contain newline
characters.

-- 
Stephane

References:
- Length of argument list
  - From: Manfred Lotz
- Re: Length of argument list
  - From: Clint Hepner
- Re: Length of argument list
  - From: Manfred Lotz

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