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To: Peter Wemm <peter@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getcwd.c 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 17:56:40 -0700
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>peter       96/10/16 17:40:06
>
>  Modified:    lib/libc/gen  getcwd.c
>  Log:
>  Corrently null-terminate the path being passed to the opendir() calls,
>  malloc() does is not defined to return a zeroed buffer leading to
>  "strange" problems.
>  
>  Submitted by: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.com>, PR#1826

   I think the assignment at the bottom of the loop:

                /* Truncate any file name. */
                *bup = '\0';
        }

   ...is now redundant since *bup isn't modified again. So the real fix was
probably to simply move the above assignment up a couple dozen lines.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project