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Date:      Wed, 05 Sep 2001 18:34:08 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        "David E.  Cross" <dec@freebsd.org>
Cc:        re@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-qa@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/rpc svc_tcp.c svc_unix.c
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20010905183253.039b5fa8@192.168.0.12>
In-Reply-To: <200109052229.f85MTNJ32998@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Hi,
How would it be best to test this, and is it in the RC being rolled right now?

         ---Mike

At 03:29 PM 9/5/2001 -0700, David E.  Cross wrote:
>dec         2001/09/05 15:29:23 PDT
>
>   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_4)
>     lib/libc/rpc         svc_tcp.c svc_unix.c
>   Log:
>   Submitted by: <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
>   Reviewed by:  <re@freebsd.org>
>   Approved by:  <re@freebsd.org>
>   Obtained from:        <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
>   MFC after:    N/A, -CURRENT no longer uses this code
>   The patch in 1.28.2.1 was in error.  It used FD_ZERO on the fds (fdset)
>   structure, but this is a dunamically allocated array that is only as
>   big as it needs to be. The result of calling FD_ZERO on it would be that
>   it would either overwrite random data in the data-segment, happen to
>   be just the right size and work correctly, or not zero out all of the
>   data it was supposed to.  The first case is far more likely (and damaging).
>
>   This code has been in extensive testing here.  And was approved by the
>   release engineers for this last minute push.
>
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.18.2.3  +2 -2      src/lib/libc/rpc/Attic/svc_tcp.c
>   1.7.2.2   +2 -2      src/lib/libc/rpc/Attic/svc_unix.c
>
>
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