Re: binfmts.h MAX_ARG_STRINGS excessive value allows heap spraying

On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:

If you don't feel the limit of 4096 arguments is sufficient please
provide us with an example where that limit is insufficient.

mv * /some/where/

(in a directory with many files).

Linking thousands of .o files into a large program or putting them in a .a 
file in a single command.

Constructing a make command line with thousands of -o options to mark 
files as considered to be old (a real case where I ran into the old 128k 
limit when it was there).

There are of course workarounds for these - but "the number of files in 
the source + build trees of a very large project" seems a better way of 
judging limits than 4096.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph-qD8j1LwMmJjtCj0u4l0SBw@public.gmane.org