From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:13:19 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (Formatting file timestamps): Very long timestamps
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(Formatting file timestamps): Very long timestamps
may be treated as errors.
---

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 57bc4c7dcb..6d196013e2 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -6073,6 +6073,9 @@ later can parse @acronym{ISO} dates, but older Emacs versions do not, so if
 you are using an older version of Emacs and specify a non-@acronym{POSIX}
 locale, you may need to set @samp{TIME_STYLE="locale"}.
 
+To avoid certain denial-of-service attacks, timestamps that would be
+longer than 1000 bytes may be treated as errors.
+
 
 @node Formatting the file names
 @subsection Formatting the file names