Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:15:32 -0500 From: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: config(8) patch Message-ID: <20001111141532.A8166@peitho.fxp.org> In-Reply-To: <200011111909.eABJ91G31777@billy-club.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 12:09:01PM -0700 References: <200011111904.eABJ41G31684@billy-club.village.org> <20001111111408.A28197@earth.causticlabs.com> <200011111904.eABJ41G31684@billy-club.village.org> <200011111909.eABJ91G31777@billy-club.village.org>
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On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 12:09:01PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <200011111904.eABJ41G31684@billy-club.village.org> Warner Losh writes: > : In message <20001111111408.A28197@earth.causticlabs.com> Chris Faulhaber writes: > : : 2) allocate [MAXPATHLEN + 1] to ensure room for MAXPATHLEN and '\0' > : > : MAXPATHLEN includes the trailing NUL. At least that's what my brain > : is telling me bde told me after proposing similar changes to another > : part of the tree years ago. > > Looking at intro(2), we see: > > 63 ENAMETOOLONG File name too long. A component of a path name exceeded > 255 (MAXNAMELEN) characters, or an entire path name exceeded 1023 > (MAXPATHLEN-1) characters. > As a side note, there are a few programs in the tree that use MAXPATHLEN + 1 (I think newsyslog.c confused me :). -- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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