Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 22:06:20 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG, eivind@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: libutil/MAXHOSTNAMELEN changes - plus a buffer overrun fix Message-ID: <200103092206.f29M6Ku05464@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> of "Fri, 09 Mar 2001 14:45:44 MST." <200103092145.f29LjiI10850@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <200103092138.f29Lc8I10799@harmony.village.org> Warner Losh writes:
> : : Eivind has some patches in the pipeline here to return errors rather
> : : than truncating host names, so it was his work that found the actual
> : : overrun.... I figured I'd commit this and possibly ask for an MFC
> : : RSN so that we get this fixed for the -stable release.
>
> On second thought, I don't think we want to rush these into -stable.
I figured a buffer overrun was grounds to ``rush'', but if the
concensus is not to, that's ok. After all, it is a *read* overrun
that isn't really going to do any harm.
> Warner
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