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Date:      Wed, 24 Nov 1999 11:31:39 -0500
From:      Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
Cc:        John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Overflow in banner(1)
Message-ID:  <19991124113139.D264@spirit.jaded.net>
In-Reply-To: <19991124071946.G49362@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@NUXI.com on Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 07:19:46AM -0800
References:  <199911240747.AAA18880@harmony.village.org> <199911240758.JAA96963@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> <19991124071946.G49362@dragon.nuxi.com>

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| 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!"


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