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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-03-14 18:36:31 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-03-14 18:36:31 +0000
commitb3021f1d18f58f772f9738c684570049431f5932 (patch)
treeaf204480d8afc7d954fcd0acebcee6fc03d3a17f
parentfed6d86b5d6a27962cc1744639a44a59594b5851 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-b3021f1d18f58f772f9738c684570049431f5932.tar.xz
Reword ls time-stamp limit issue.
-rw-r--r--NEWS2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 78cf4d13b..74a926580 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
rather than silently wrapping around.
ls now refuses to generate time stamps containing more than 1000 bytes, to
- foil remote denial-of-service attacks (e.g., --time-style='+%1000000000Y').
+ foil potential denial-of-service attacks on hosts with very large stacks.
test now detects integer overflow when evaluating large integers,
rather than silently wrapping around.