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Date:      Fri, 16 Jul 1999 09:20:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: misc/10231: inet_addr() doesn't check for illegal values in 
Message-ID:  <199907161620.JAA61531@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR misc/10231; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/10231: inet_addr() doesn't check for illegal values in 
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 12:17:34 -0400 (EDT)

 <<On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 09:10:02 -0700 (PDT), John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> said:
 
 >  Yes, it's a bug.  The patch has the right idea but it isn't quite
 >  right in all the details.  For example, in the first chunk of the
 >  patch:
  
 >  Also, in the second chunk of the patch, under case 3, there's a bug.
 >  The line should read:
  
 Actually, the whole function should be rewritten to use strtoul()
 rather than hand-rolling Yet Another integer parser.
 
 -GAWollman
 
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