Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:06:49 -0700 From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: chad@DCFinc.com, twchan@singnet.com.sg, sreese@codysbooks.com, sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu, sbernard@gmu.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: packages/INDEX on ftp.freebsd.org corrupted [was: Re: Has anybody been having problem with latest Snapshot for 4.3? (Release 4.3-20010718-STABLE)] Message-ID: <20010721180649.A19790@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <20010721151923Q.jkh@freebsd.org>; from jkh@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:19:23PM -0700 References: <007201c11140$c20a7950$1800a8c0@borges> <20010721142148.B5244-100000@zaapth.twnet.org> <20010721142749.C19014@freeway.dcfinc.com> <20010721151923Q.jkh@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:19:23PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> > Subject: Re: packages/INDEX on ftp.freebsd.org corrupted [was: Re: Has > anybody been having problem with latest Snapshot for 4.3? (Release > 4.3-20010718-STABLE)] > Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 14:27:49 -0700 > > > Sounds like a two pronger. > > 1) Jordan (or whomever is working in his stead) should fix > > sysinstall so it behaves correctly in the face of incorrect > > input data. > > Back in June: > > revision 1.91 > date: 2001/06/22 21:47:55; author: dd; state: Exp; lines: +4 -4 > Increase the buffer sizes for the build deps, run deps, and the line > itself verbatim from INDEX. This fixes seg. faults with newer INDEX > files which have some gnome ports with outrageously long run deps. > > Approved by: jkh And those new, larger buffers are written into by strncpy(dest_buff, src_buff, sizeof(dest_buff)); or read(fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer)); or some other bounded function, yes? -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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