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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: bin/1863: On systems with setuid 'lpr' and defined printers, lpr breaks root
To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 21:20:37 +0200 (MET DST)
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Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
In-Reply-To: <199610221620.JAA08429@freefall.freebsd.org> from Ollivier Robert at "Oct 22, 96 09:20:02 am"
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As Ollivier Robert wrote:

>  Here is a fix which truncate the input string if longer than BUFSIZ. I did
>  not consider it worth dynamic allocation because the strings are supposed
>  to be short in the control file.

I think there's not even a need for a dynamic buffer, the buffer is
written to `ofd' at the end of the function, so you can loop until all
bytes from p2 are written.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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