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On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:20:15PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:

> It would be nice to also include the files/patch-util.c from my update
> patch: rsync-2.5.7 artificially limits the size of a malloc'ed block
> to 1G, which is fine on 32-bit machines, but might turn out to be
> just that - an artificial limitation - on 64-bit ones.  I don't think
> it is strictly needed though - allocating more than 1G at a time strikes
> me as more than a little scary, even for a FreeBSD mirror server :)
>=20
> Thanks for taking care of this, though!

Sorry, I didn't see your patch before I did the upgrade myself.  I
think I'll leave this to the maintainer to decide, since it's not
relevant to the security patch.  You already gave the fairly
convincing argument of why this might be considered a feature anyway
:-)

Kris

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