Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 21:49:37 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: number of lines in a file, given its size Message-ID: <Mutt.19970112214937.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701121952.MAA26127@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Jan 12, 1997 12:52:08 -0700 References: <Mutt.19970112195725.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199701121952.MAA26127@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > But you've got your point wrong. strdup(), as much you prefer it or > > not, was _by no means_ the answer to the question. The question was > You were the one concerned with the fixed buffer size (apparently as > a means of an unlikely stack overflow attack). Yes. But Terry, you totally missed the point here, i'm telling you for the third time now. I stop telling you this. Go, and read the code! You can't allocate an array of pointers with strdup(). Period. > You were also the one concerned about "readability" for a well defined > return value from strcpy(), which everyone reading the code *should* > now is the copy target address. This was in su(1), not in getusershell(3). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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