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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org>
Subject: Re: Bash 2.05 buffer overrun problem
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At 06:41 PM 8/4/01 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
 >> Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 11:22:11 -0400
 >> From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org>
 >>
 >> Note that the ENVIRONMENT size (/E:) is allowed to be up to 
32768.  I
 >> think that is the size you need to allow for.
 >
 >That's the upper limit, but it is for all of the variables combined.
 >An individual variable's value cannot be larger than 1024 on Windows
 >9X; if you try, you will crash COMMAND.COM.

OK, I thought that was a buffer for the whole environment.  My mistake, 
and sorry for jumping in with both feet.

One other thought, based on my lack of knowledge:  Does that 1024 limit 
include the variable name?  Could there need to be an allowance for a 
name + 1024 of value?

HTH

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