Re: NULL terminate over-long /proc/kallsyms symbols

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu Jul 06 2006 - 13:58:32 EST


Daniel Bonekeeper wrote:

Got a " You are not authorized to access bug #190296. To see this bug,
you must first log in to an account with the appropriate permissions."
on the referred bugzilla page.

What kind of symbol uses more than 127 characters, anyways ?


Maybe C++ mangled names.

I've seen names longer than early machines' main memory.

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