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Re: [Bug-gnulib] mountlist patch for buffer size overflow on OSF/1 Alpha
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-gnulib] mountlist patch for buffer size overflow on OSF/1 Alphas, etc. |
Date: |
Sat, 01 Nov 2003 10:08:17 +0100 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> I noticed a potential (albeit highly unlikely) size overflow in
> calculating a buffer size on OSF/1 Alphas in mountlist.c. While I was
> fixing this, I also fixed a FIXME (me_type wasn't freed) and used a
> brief style for mallocs; if this is not the style you like please let
> me know and I can back out that part of the change. I installed the
> following:
Thanks!
I've put that in coreutils, too.
Yes, I too prefer the style of malloc/realloc invocation
that avoids explicit type names, and have recently changed
a few in coreutils/src (not yet checked in).