On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, H VC wrote: Did you ever tried the command below? $ perl -e 'print "A" x 100000000' > /dev/null > Hi, > > Dave Ahmad ( daat_private ) tell me to post this. > > On a default installation of RedHat 7.2 sh-utils-2.0.11-5 is installed. On a > RH 7.1 sh-utils version is 2.0.13 ... ¿ Why this ? > > On my RH 7.2 I tried this : > > [hvc@condor hvc] $ su `perl -e 'print "A" x 100000000'` > > and my box got practically frozen. > I'm on a K6-II 500 , 128 MB and 550 of swap. > > I have noticed that it only seems to work whe I parse a user string > to su near the limit ( free mem. + swap ). Over this range is detected > as a too many large string but also just over the available memory... > > Why su allows so large user names ? > How long could be a unix/linux user name ? > Why do not su limit the size of username to the unix/linux max. size of a > user name ? > > Thanks. > > HVC > > Hugo Vázquez Caramés > IT Security Services Winmat > Barcelona > Spain > > overclocking_a_la_abuelaat_private > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Descargue GRATUITAMENTE MSN Explorer en http://explorer.yupimsn.com/intl.asp > -- Flávio
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