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Date:      Sun, 22 Jul 2001 09:37:53 -0700
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org>
To:        chad@DCFinc.com
Cc:        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:  <20010722093753U.jkh@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010721180649.A19790@freeway.dcfinc.com>
References:  <20010721142749.C19014@freeway.dcfinc.com> <20010721151923Q.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010721180649.A19790@freeway.dcfinc.com>

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You have the code, why are you asking?  Go LOOK.  Yeesh, people
have gotten so lazy! :)

- Jordan

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 18:06:49 -0700

> 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
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