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Date:      Fri, 19 Jan 1996 10:00:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, jdli@linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [bug?] change in subr_diskslice.c
Message-ID:  <199601191800.KAA08126@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <293.822059315@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 19, 96 02:48:35 pm

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> 
> > >> sd1s1s2s3s4s5s1s2s4s5s6s4s1s2s5s2s1s2s4s5: error reading extended
> > >This isn't too good either  I belive I have a bug in the sprintf somewhere..
> .
I think this explains the crashes people have been seeing with sprintf
in the DEVFS code.
i.e. sprintf(name,"rst%ld",unit);
somehow seems to overflow a 32 byte string.. (either on read or
write.. not sure which)

> > 
> > I think sprintf() forgets to null-terminate the string, but I can't
> > explain where "sd1s1s2..." came from.
> 
> Yep, I fixed that one already, but I wonder about the s1s2... as well...
> 
> BTW: anybody who compiled a kernel the last 72 hours should probably
> recompile it now...
> 
> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp           | phk@FreeBSD.ORG       FreeBSD Core-team.
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