[iyonix-support] Re: Bug/limit in Iyonix hosts file?

On Sun 01 Feb, David J. Ruck wrote:
> 
> On 31 Jan 2009 Paul Vigay <lists-nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> 
> > Does anyone know if there is a maximum line length to entries in the hosts
> > file (BootResources:!Internet.files.hosts)?
> 
> > I've got a local server entry with numerous aliases configured for it.
> > However, I've just added a new entry (taking the line length over 255
> > charactesr) and now the entire line is ignored.
> 
> > On removing the new entry, all the other aliases start working again - so I
> > presume there must be a 255 character limit or something....?
> 
> More than likely.

IIRC the limit prior to 'select' for various things like command strings is
240 Characters!

> I'm pleased there seems to be some input validation and it didn't 
> buffer overflow and crash.



Chris Evans

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