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From: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org>
To: "Alexandr Kovalenko" <neve_ripe@yahoo.com>,
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Subject: RE: Not only ftpd's problem with ls */../*.....
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 08:18:08 +1200
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:: problem with glob is not only ftpd's problem.
:: 
:: The folowing was run from regular user...
:: 
:: time ls */../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*
:: Out of memory.
:: 8.990u 64.850s 1:57.38 62.9%    0+0k 0+0io 2784pf+10305w

I get this:

$ time ls */../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*
/bin/ls: Argument list too long

real    0m1.503s
user    0m0.195s
sys     0m1.305s

4.2-STABLE.

-- Juha

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