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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT softhome DOT net>
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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 09:47:49 -0500
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Subject: Re: v2.03 refresh issue - passing 3K argument list [was Re: A new bug?]
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> I think that's the change in glob Mark mentioned: there's a 2000-character
> buffer there used for globbing, and using quotes makes this a single
> argument that needs to fit into that buffer.

And Bash 2.04's dosexec.c has a workaround (search for '2000') to not allow 
arguments over 2000 bytes long to prevent a crash because of the overflow 
bug. Bash 2.05 has no such protection since it's meant to be used with libc 
2.04.