Hello Wilfred!

Thursday February 13 2014 16:29, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Developers:

 WvV> Hi Developers,
 WvV> I want to suggest the following changes to the makenl code:

I will most likely incorporate these for 3.4.3.  Thanks for the suggestions.

 WvV> I was hit by the (undocumented) arcopy and arcmove command line limit
 WvV> of 20 chars when I upgraded from 3.2.9b to 3.4.2.

 WvV> The configuration lines I use are:

 WvV> arccopy l /usr/local/bin/lha cqi
 WvV> arcmove l /usr/local/bin/lha cqi

 WvV> Which needs a command line buffer of at least 23 chars.

 WvV> Because in the 3.4.2 version (or a version inbetween) fixes a bug
 WvV> where the command line length wasn't checked when it copied the string
 WvV> from the configuration file, it used to work with the 3.2.9b version.
 WvV> But no longer in the 3.4.2, so I got an error when the arccopy command
 WvV> was executed by makenl in my configuration, because the command line
 WvV> was cut short...

Yes, andrew clarke has done a bunch of work on preventing overflows, including
at least one that I created a few versions ago.  OOPS!

 WvV> 256 is still arbitrary, but should be enough for most systems. ;)

I would hope so!

Regards,

Andrew

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