From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 14:22:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7451037B423 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 14:22:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 27383 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2002 22:22:15 -0000 Received: from dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net (66.92.171.91) by dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net with SMTP; 8 Mar 2002 22:22:15 -0000 Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 17:22:15 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: Lord Raiden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: One off error?? In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020308142742.0095b4d0@pop.netzero.net> Message-ID: <20020308172024.D27342-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Have you ever written a program, and found some wierd bug where the program crashes, only to find out that some condition you were checking in order to know when to stop writing to an array (most often a char[]) is allowing one too many elements get into the array. This is a "one-off" error. Ken On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Lord Raiden wrote: > HI all. I hate to sound stupid on this, but I'm no programming guru. I > was reading up on the problems with the OpenSSH exploit found and someone > mentioned about it being a one-off error. What is that? I'm curious. Thanks. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message