[patch] Fix path length overflow in realpath (BZ#22786)

[Andreas Schwab]

On Apr 10 2018, Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com> wrote:

> +  const size_t path_len = (size_t) INT_MAX + 1;
> +  char *path = malloc (path_len);
> +
> +  if (path == NULL)
> +    {
> +      printf ("malloc (%zu): %m\n", path_len);
> +      return EXIT_FAILURE;
> +    }

Trying to allocate a block of INT_MAX+1 is rather likely to fail on a
32-bit platform.

Andreas.

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