Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 04 Apr 2000 08:59:41 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MLEN and crashes 
Message-ID:  <200004040659.IAA25879@peedub.muc.de>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 08:25:51 %2B0200." <20000404062505.0BE021CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Peter Wemm writes:
>Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>> Bruce Evans writes:
>> >On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>> >
>> >> Bruce Evans writes:
>> >> >On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>> >> >> I think we should nuke csu_hdr since it's not used anywhere. Is that
>> >> >> what you really mean ?
>> >> >
>> >> >Yes.  I'm trying the following patch.  Only tested at compile time.
>> >> >
>> >> [patch snipped]
>> >> 
>> >> Thank you, Bruce ! This is pretty much the same patch I tested.
>> >> 
>> >> So, should I commit it ?
>> >
>> >If you have tested it :-).
>> >
>> 
>> I'm running with the change right now. No problems.
>
>I would prefer that we did this:
>
>#define MAX_LEN  (min(128, MLEN))
>
>or something like that.  This should stop Bad Things happening if
>somebody recompiles with MLEN set specifically to 128 (and is an ideal
>MFC candidate for 4.x for when people set MLEN to 256 over there).
>

This is a pretty good idea, too. But I already deleted csu_hdr in -current.
It would be easy enough to back out the change if there's consensus.

---
Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de gj@freebsd.org




To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200004040659.IAA25879>