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Date:      Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:34:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/31507: Risk of buffer overflow in struct sockaddr_un
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011026113237.88071B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200110261520.f9QFK1e07958@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote:
: No, the correct code would ALWAYS be:
: 
: 	strncpy(server.sun_path, file_fifo, sizeof server.sun_path);

Does this handle off-by-one situations?  Also, in terms of using strncpy,
would it be more wise to utilize strlcpy() rather than a
strncpy()/buf[sizeof(buf)-1] = 0; throughout the tree?  Or has strlcpy()
had some negative feedback?

Cheers,
Andrew

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| Andrew R. Reiter 
| arr@fledge.watson.org
| "It requires a very unusual mind
|   to undertake the analysis of the obvious" -- A.N. Whitehead


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