[Bug 1914] size limit for -fp argument

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------- Additional Comments From eich at pdx.freedesktop.org  2004-12-07 10:41 -------
I wonder if this may create a security problem.
Doing away with the test means that one can pass an arbitrarily long argument to
-fp.
There must have been a reason that we were so restrictive on the argument length.        
   
   
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