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Date:      Sat, 17 Mar 2001 16:53:35 -0600 (CST)
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
To:        dillon@earth.backplane.com, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Not only ftpd's problem with ls */../*..... 
Message-ID:  <200103172253.f2HMrZ008412@prism.flugsvamp.com>
In-Reply-To: <local.mail.freebsd-stable/200103172135.f2HLZgT96041@earth.backplane.com>
References:  <local.mail.freebsd-stable/200103172107.f2HL7Ea02611@cwsys.cwsent.com>

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In article <local.mail.freebsd-stable/200103172135.f2HLZgT96041@earth.backplane.com> you write:
>    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.

Yes, I'm considering the following:

	gl_flags |= GLOB_MAXFILES
	gl_match = filemax

Since gl_match is only used as an input parameter at the moment.
Another approach is to limit the number of bytes returned to ARG_MAX,
but I somewhat dislike that; it makes more sense to me to specify the
number of paths instead.
--
Jonathan

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