[Forensics-changes] [yara] 91/368: Document -k/--stack-size option and change wording

[Hilko Bengen]

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commit ad4beeab5cca49ff49d257a8eb9c32853c3ce806
Author: Coleman Kane <ckane at colemankane.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 9 20:19:48 2015 -0400

    Document -k/--stack-size option and change wording
    
    Stack size is specified in terms of STACK_ITEM slots, not bytes.
---
 docs/commandline.rst | 5 +++++
 yara.c               | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/commandline.rst b/docs/commandline.rst
index 6b54a1c..fe51376 100644
--- a/docs/commandline.rst
+++ b/docs/commandline.rst
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ Available options are:
 
   Abort scanning after a number of seconds has elapsed.
 
+.. option:: -k <slots> --stacksize=<slots>
+
+  Allocate a stack size of "slots" number of slots. Default: 16384. This
+  will allow you to use larger rules, albeit with more memory overhead.
+
 .. option:: -d <identifier>=<value>
 
   Define external variable.
diff --git a/yara.c b/yara.c
index 855f65c..c628272 100644
--- a/yara.c
+++ b/yara.c
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ args_option_t options[] =
       "abort scanning after the given number of SECONDS", "SECONDS"),
 
   OPT_INTEGER('k', "stack-size", &stacksize,
-      "Set stack size to allocate in exec() to BYTES", "BYTES"),
+      "Set stack size to allocate in exec() to SLOTS (default=16384)", "SLOTS"),
 
   OPT_BOOLEAN('r', "recursive", &recursive_search,
       "recursively search directories"),

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