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From: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: expand_number() for fetch'es -B and -S switches
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On Wed Sep  8 10, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> writes:
> > so how about forgetting about expand_number() and simply introducing a
> > maximum buffer size of 1 megabyte?
> 
> so how about just leaving the code alone?  :)

i thought you wanted to have a maximum buffer size of 1MB in fetch?

right now -B can be any value and it's quite easy to trigger ENOMEM.

cheers.
alex

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