From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 17 13:36:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A896A37B719 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 13:36:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.2/8.9.3) id f2HLZgT96041; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 13:35:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 13:35:42 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200103172135.f2HLZgT96041@earth.backplane.com> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: "Juha Saarinen" , "Alexandr Kovalenko" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Not only ftpd's problem with ls */../*..... References: <200103172107.f2HL7Ea02611@cwsys.cwsent.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG These glob patches to libc are totally inappropriate. If there is a problem with DOS attacks in ftp, the solution is to add a simple API call to set the limit (the default being unlimited) and then make ftp use it. Screwing over every single program that uses the libc globing interface 'by default' is not the solution. Assuming that people will not use this interface to glob more then 16384 files is insane. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message