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Re: Announcing the release of version 4.3.8 of GNU findutils
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Re: Announcing the release of version 4.3.8 of GNU findutils |
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Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:23:42 +0100 |
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On 12 Jun 2007, James Youngman spake thusly:
> I would like to thank <address@hidden> for help in the preparation
> of this release.
You're welcome :) I could never work with a crashing locate, it would
be even more annoying than a crashing ls.
> #20157: Avoid segfault in locate when run as root. This is caused by
> a buffer overrun, but at this time no explot mechanism is known.
^^^^^^
Is it excessively pedantic of me to point at that and say you have an
off-by-i bug? :)