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Emacs vulnerable to endless-data attack (minor)

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: stefan <at> marxist.se, 19565 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19565: Emacs vulnerable to endless-data attack (minor)
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:47:54 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: stefan <at> marxist.se,  19565 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 18:27:15 +0200
> 
> So bytes/sec, as you suggest, may be the best heuristic.  But it should
> only kick in after having received a large number of bytes, probably.

Yes, I agree.  So maybe make it kick in once the process buffer is
large enough?  And even here we will need to consider, say, shell and
term.el buffers, which could grow quite large.

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