Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:33:02 +0300 From: "Andrey Simonenko" <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Staticaly allocated buffers in library. Is it correct? Message-ID: <96rash$1m1d$1@igloo.uran.net.ua> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102171202110.400-100000@scorpion.cosmos.all.net>
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So, if I send problem report with my patches, I should inherit usage of staticaly allocated buffers. Am I right? milunovic <milunovic@sendmail.ru> wrote in message news:Pine.BSF.4.21.0102171202110.400-100000@scorpion.cosmos.all.net... > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Andrey Simonenko wrote: > > > I patched some library files and noted that some functions, which parse some > > configuration files, use staticaly allocated buffers. Sizes of such > > staticaly allocated buffers are 8k, 10k and so on. These buffers are used to > > hold one line from parsed file. Usually it is enough for one line, but > > really this is error (I think). > > Well since config files can be only changed by root,I don't think that > root will use too long lines to case heap overflow.So this isn't big > problem. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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