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
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