valid?
Posted Sep 15, 2010 0:51 UTC (Wed) by
roelofs (guest, #2599)
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valid? by bronson
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Another old security problem
A gigabytes argv would be a stretch. But megabytes? That seems pretty reasonable to me.
Absolutely. A minor side project of mine involves the generation of 35000 time-series images per year, each with a name of the form "fubar-XX-yyyymmdd-hhmm-UTC.png". As a same-dir glob, that works out to just over a megabyte; add a "yyyy/" directory prefix and multiple years, and you're easily into the 10MB range. Increase the time resolution by a factor of 3 to 5, and you're well on your way to 100MB. (And yes, it's very cool to watch a full-year sequence animate, particularly on a fast machine; a 5- or 10-year sequence would be even better, assuming I could hit 60fps on the decode.) Of course, at some point it becomes a database-driven custom app, but 10MB command lines are not out of the question with the trivial hack I have so far.
Greg
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