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authorEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2001-05-07 18:29:33 +0000
committerEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2001-05-07 18:29:33 +0000
commit4e88ea446cbc773e8f8633a6fc7bda2c155ed20a (patch)
tree8bad46b02870c53bc4ed16a654a5d3497a27f9ce /libc/unistd/execl.c
parente2058fa00790c7e731e08e2a273350bf784c559e (diff)
Change FILENAME_MAX to be only 255. Max filename on ext2 is 255,
so there is no reason to allocate 4k. Change working of execvep.c per patch from Matthias Kilian <kili@outback.escape.de> so that there is not a fixed 127 byte buffer. Too easy to overflow... -Erik
Diffstat (limited to 'libc/unistd/execl.c')
-rw-r--r--libc/unistd/execl.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libc/unistd/execl.c b/libc/unistd/execl.c
index a05867ef8..9d49d5abd 100644
--- a/libc/unistd/execl.c
+++ b/libc/unistd/execl.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ int execl(__const char *path, __const char *arg, ...)
if (i <= 16)
argv = shortargv;
else {
- argv = (const char **) malloc(sizeof(char *) * i);
+ argv = (const char **) alloca(sizeof(char *) * i);
}
argv[0] = arg;