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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-03-11 23:13:19 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-03-11 23:13:19 +0000
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(Formatting file timestamps): Very long timestamps
may be treated as errors.
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@@ -6073,6 +6073,9 @@ later can parse @acronym{ISO} dates, but older Emacs versions do not, so if
you are using an older version of Emacs and specify a non-@acronym{POSIX}
locale, you may need to set @samp{TIME_STYLE="locale"}.
+To avoid certain denial-of-service attacks, timestamps that would be
+longer than 1000 bytes may be treated as errors.
+
@node Formatting the file names
@subsection Formatting the file names