Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 07:19:46 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Overflow in banner(1) Message-ID: <19991124071946.G49362@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <199911240758.JAA96963@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>; from jhay@mikom.csir.co.za on Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 09:58:51AM %2B0200 References: <199911240747.AAA18880@harmony.village.org> <199911240758.JAA96963@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
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On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 09:58:51AM +0200, John Hay wrote: > Well the original line is plain wrong if Brian's patch is being used, > because there message is a pointer and the size of a pointer is 4. Yes, yes, yes. Warner and I are *not* that stupid WRT C. We were both commenting on the *original* proposed patch. Geez. Now rather than try to call us stupid, Kris (and only Kris) could say, "well, I've decided to go with a dynamically allocated buffer, so of course I can't use sizeof() any more". -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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