Re: lynx-dev Re: BUG (weird one): long filenames, specialized

[dickey]

> 
> The reason _to_ move to automatic allocation is so that when one encounters 
> file names or user inputs larger than you expected, lynx doesn't die ,  
> generate an error, or permit people to execute code they should not be 
> able to execute... 
>  
> I think _that's_ an exceptionally good reason to make the changes where 
> input is not a fixed size. 

right:  if you _don't_ know how big it could be, and it could be "large",
automatic allocation is a solution.  Another solution would be to discard
data that doesn't fit, but I don't like that much.  Where performance is an
issue we can tune things (we do that in the code that does directory
listings, for example).

> Larry W. Virden                 <URL: mailto:address@hidden> 

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