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Date:      Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:52:20 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Roman Divacky <rdivacky@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r191330 - head/usr.bin/ncal
Message-ID:  <20090421195220.GA81212@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090421190651.GA2505@freebsd.org>
References:  <200904201819.n3KIJcZo054306@svn.freebsd.org> <20090421185436.GA18628@zim.MIT.EDU> <20090421190651.GA2505@freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 09:06:51PM +0200, Roman Divacky wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 02:54:36PM -0400, David Schultz wrote:
> > Also, before this change, ncal was already full of convoluted
> > buffer handling, arbitrary buffer sizes, and little to no bounds
> > checking. This commit adds more magic numbers and fragile buffer
> > handling code, and generally makes an already hairy program even
> > less scrutable. This isn't your fault, but it would be nice if we
> > could make ncal better before it gets much worse. For instance,
> > you might use snprintf() or asprintf() instead of an extra half
> > dozen calls to memcpy() with various offsets.
> 
> yes, thats true. do you want me to revert this? I am perfectly fine
> with having locally modified cal that supports this highlighting
> and not share this with world at all.

As a matter of fact, it might be good idea.  Since the code is already
in repo, it can be revised later and committed again in its refined
form.

./danfe



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