On 2 Jan 2003, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > In tagfile.h, the default buffer size is set to 32*1024. However, the > conffiles field of the package in question is 45040 bytes long. What > happens is the buffer is completely filled and therefore apt stops > working. The same happens if any other field is larger than 32k bytes > long, say a description.
Yes, this is correct, any record cannot exceed 32K. If the buffer were made dynamic then it could potentially grow to unreasonable sizes on a corrupt file. I personally think 32K is a very reasonable limit, considering it is something like 50x larger than the average size. IMHO mailman should probably reconsider having such a large list. Jason
