From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Rostislav Skudnov <rostislav@tuxera.com>
Cc: <musl@lists.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] increase buffer size in getmntent to 4096 bytes
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:48:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161017144817.299986f4@ncopa-desktop.copa.dup.pw> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1476699865-5593-1-git-send-email-rostislav@tuxera.com>
On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:24:25 +0000
Rostislav Skudnov <rostislav@tuxera.com> wrote:
> getmntent fails if the length of the mount entry exceeds the buffer
> size. The new buffer size matches that of glibc.
> ---
> Even after this patch, getmntent may still fail since the device and mount
> paths may be up to PATH_MAX in length, and the mount options may
> (theoretically) have unlimited length. The same would happen in glibc, though.
This patch solve the same problem, but uses getline to malloc the buffer as needed:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2016/09/08/1
-nc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-17 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-17 10:24 Rostislav Skudnov
2016-10-17 12:48 ` Natanael Copa [this message]
2016-10-17 20:29 ` Rich Felker
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