On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Karsten Blees <karsten.bl...@gmail.com> wrote: > 'git status' segfaults if a directory is longer than PATH_MAX, because > processing .gitignore files in prep_exclude() writes past the end of a > PATH_MAX-bounded buffer. > > Remove the limitation by using strbuf instead. > > Note: this fix just 'abuses' strbuf as string allocator, len is always 0. > prep_exclude() can probably be simplified using more strbuf APIs.
FYI I had a similar patch [1] that attempted to lazily strbuf_init() instead so that strbuf_ API could be used. [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/248310 -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
