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Date:      Sun, 14 Sep 1997 17:38:06 -0700
From:      Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
To:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-lib@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getpwent.c 
Message-ID:  <199709150038.RAA13043@precipice.shockwave.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Sep 1997 16:31:10 PDT." <19970914163110.42169@freebsd.org> 

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It seems to me that we want the ability to have libc work with older
kernels?  If so, something along the lines of what peter did with poll()
in the resolver code would be correct, yes?

  From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.ORG>
  Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getpwent.c
  On Sun, Sep 14, 1997 at 03:10:52PM -0700, Vincent Poy wrote:
  > On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Wolfram Schneider wrote:
  > > wosch       1997/09/14 11:16:12 PDT
  > > 
  > >   Modified files:
  > >     lib/libc/gen         getpwent.c 
  > >   Log:
  > >   Potential bufferflow in getpwent(), getpwnam() and getpwuid()
  > >   
  > >   PR: bin/4134
  > >   Submitted by:	nick@foobar.org
  > >   
  > >   Revision  Changes    Path
  > >   1.41      +7 -2      src/lib/libc/gen/getpwent.c
  > 
  > 	This one fails after building at:
  > 
  > gzip -c /usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/regex/re_format.7 > re_format.7.gz
  > gzip -c /usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/rpc/rstat_svc.8 > rstat_svc.8.gz
  > install -c -o bin -g bin -m 444   libc.a /usr/lib
  > install -c -o bin -g bin -m 444   libc_p.a /usr/lib
  > install -c -o bin -g bin -m 444   -fschg  libc.so.3.0  /usr/lib
  > install -c -o bin -g bin -m 444   libc_pic.a /usr/lib
  > ld.so failed: Undefined symbol "SYS___getcwd" in
  > install:/usr/lib/libc.so.3.0
  > *** Error code 1
  > 
  > Stop.
  
  This has nothing to do with getpwent.c. 
  __getcwd is the new system call. Didn't you read the warning 
  in -current?
  
  Wolfram
  



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