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Date:      Thu, 13 Feb 1997 08:39:53 +1100 (EST)
From:      proff@suburbia.net
To:        regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk (Philippe Regnauld)
Cc:        michaelh@cet.co.jp, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Increasing overall security....
Message-ID:  <19970212213953.14194.qmail@suburbia.net>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970212145914.regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> from Philippe Regnauld at "Feb 12, 97 02:59:14 pm"

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> Michael Hancock (michaelh) ecrit/writes:
> > 
> > 2) We don't know if it operates correctly.  Sendmail 8.8.5 has around 106
> > strcpy's in it and we don't know what the patch's effect will be in a
> > production environment. 
> 
> 	107 explicit.  Until you check:
> 
> 	#define newstr(s)    strcpy(xalloc(strlen(s) + 1), s)
> 
> 	... of which there are _many_.

And of which none can ever fail.

--
Prof. Julian Assange  |If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people
		      |together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks
proff@iq.org          |and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless
proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu  |immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint Exupery



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