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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: number of lines in a file, given its size
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
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In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970111132023.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 11, 97 01:20:23 pm
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> > In line 115 in /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/getusershell.c:
> > 
> >     shells = calloc((unsigned)statb.st_size / 3, sizeof (char *));  
> >                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                     
> > Isn't this a suspicious approximation of the number of lines in /etc/shells
> > (just put `/' in it for example of an invalid entry).
> 
> You are certainly right, but i think that's a moot point basically.
> It requires you at least the following file in order to break:

strdup() to the rescue! ...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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