Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 11:22:41 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: number of lines in a file, given its size Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970113112240.00a38800@dimaga.com>
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At 11:23 PM 1/12/97 +0100, J Wunsch wrote: >As Terry Lambert wrote: > >> I think erroring out to "okshells" on the malloc failure is a bit >> bogus... > >malloc errors are bogus, too. :) The hell will break afterwards >anyway, so it doesn't matter whether it returns `okshells' or >something else. Race condition and possibly (very minor) security problem - I would have it print "No memory" and exit(EXIT_FAILURE); No security hole too small etc... Eivind Eklund / perhaps@yes.no / http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/
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