Re: vi buffer overflow

[Vasisht Tadigotla <vasisht () eden rutgers edu>]

Just says File name too long on 
SunOS 5.7 
IRIX 6.5
both vi and du don't crash
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Kaneda Akira wrote:

> Did some testing of my own.
>
> on Redhat 7.0 (VIM 5.7.8)
> # vi `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
> Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
> Vim: Finished.
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> # uname -a
> Linux riven 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:49:06 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
> #
>
> however du on redhat 7 was okay (du version 4.0x)
>
> Also tested my slackware 7 system, vi and du didnt
> crash (vi/elvis 2.1_4, du 4.0)
> [Slackware system: Linux myst 2.2.16 #121 Fri Jun 16 20:43:40 PDT 2000
> i486 unknown]
>
> --- KF <dotslash () snosoft com> wrote:
> > Not sure how big of a deal either of these are due
> > to the fact that they
> > are not suid... any thoughts?
> >
> > # vi `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
> > Memory fault - core dumped
> >
> > # du `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
> > Memory fault - core dumped
> >
> >
> > # uname -a
> > SCO_SV scosysv 3.2 5.0.6 i386
> >
> > -KF
>
> ---
> Kaneda Akira
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> motivations and those of others.  That's what makes life so
> interesting.
>     -- Kaji, Evangelion Ep 18
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