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charcircuit
on May 26, 2022
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splice() and the ghost of set_fs()
>Can't be more than 255 in any field
They can just change the max. It's not that big of a deal.
SAI_Peregrinus
on May 27, 2022
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No, it's one byte per field (except EXTRAVERSION, which is a string). That's part of the userspace ABI, so it can't change without
extremely
good reason (critical security issue that can't be mitigated in another way).
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They can just change the max. It's not that big of a deal.