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A comment on size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer. Parent comment

Re:size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer by mishac on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @04:02PM (#27898538)
> I personally haven't run into it as a developer

Clearly not a nodejs developer then! npm's insanely nested dependency graph caused me to hit the 260 character limit relatively regularly. (though this was several years ago, so maybe they have mitigations for that now)

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Re:size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer by pfraze on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @04:04PM (#27898571)
IIRC this is partly why node_modules moved to a flat structure
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