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On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 08:10:57PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote: > > Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 17:24:23 -0700 > > From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> > > > char msg [NL_TEXTMAX]; > > Such programs are broken. It's just like the same thing with > PATH_MAX. With PATH_MAX, I would expect I could create a pathname length up to PATH_MAX. > > > I won't buy you can create a message with INT_MAX bytes. > > I expect on an Alpha you can... and will it really help if NL_TEXTMAX > is, say, (1 << 30)? Yes, it may be reasonable, which I doubt, for 64bit machines if you have enough memory and/or swap space. But I won't call it reasonable for 32bit machines. If you think it is reasonable, try to generate such a message on both 64bit and 32bit machines. H.J.
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