From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 24 8:31:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from spirit.jaded.net (spirit.jaded.net [216.94.113.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D0E314BFF for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 08:31:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@spirit.jaded.net) Received: (from dan@localhost) by spirit.jaded.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA01653; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 11:31:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 11:31:39 -0500 From: Dan Moschuk To: "David O'Brien" Cc: John Hay , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Overflow in banner(1) Message-ID: <19991124113139.D264@spirit.jaded.net> References: <199911240747.AAA18880@harmony.village.org> <199911240758.JAA96963@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> <19991124071946.G49362@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <19991124071946.G49362@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@NUXI.com on Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 07:19:46AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG | 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". I've never done this myself, but I've always been under the impression that sizeof(*buf) would work for dynamically allocated buffers. -- Dan Moschuk (TFreak!dan@freebsd.org) "Cure for global warming: One giant heatsink and dual fans!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message