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Re: Length of argument list



2015-06-11 11:27:16 +0200, Manfred Lotz:
[...]
> I know but when dealing with files I never take into account
> that file names contain newlines. IMHO, only crazy people create file
> names which contain newlines.
[...]

Crazy, careless (copy-paste in a terminal) or malicious.

There are lots of security vulnerabilties around that are caused
by code that assumes file names cannot contain newline
characters.

-- 
Stephane



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