From 8e80be2356746c9720f0ea35f4b3b52846c979b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:13:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (Formatting file timestamps): Very long timestamps may be treated as errors. --- doc/coreutils.texi | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) 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 -- 2.47.3