Re: [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit(ping)

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Aug 28 2006 - 14:58:22 EST


Matt Domsch wrote:

No reason. I was just trying to be careful, not leaving data in the
upper bits of those registers going uninitialized. If we know they're
not being used ever, then it's not a problem. But I don't think
that's the source of the command line size concern, is it?


No, it's treating the command line as a fixed buffer, as opposed to a null-terminated string. This was always a bug, by the way.

-hpa

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