On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:32:30PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
>
> I was already wondering, how much I should allow. :)
> But I'd rather set an arbitrary limit (and warn) than allowing an
> arbitrary long string.
Since this has an unknown effect it should give an error, not just a
warning.
In the case raised by Russell an error would have been better, he would
never try to boot the kernel in that case.
Sam
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