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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
To: schaefer@nbn.com
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: PATH_MAX used dangerously -- do we care?
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 22:58:21 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199607252058.WAA31016@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <960725135205.ZM14594@candle.brasslantern.com> from Bart Schaefer at "Jul 25, 96 01:52:05 pm"

> Yes, decimal digits ARE what's being written into the buffers in the two
> cases where I made the change.  Compare lines 651-656, which I changed,
> to lines 708-711, which I did not change.  Why should DIGBUFSIZE be used
> on 708 but not on 651?

Look at that:

    case PM_INTEGER:
	convbase(s = buf, v->pm->gets.ifn(v->pm), v->pm->ct);
	break;

convbase can overflow a DIGBUFSIZE'ed buf.

Zoltan



  reply	other threads:[~1996-07-25 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-07-07 16:34 Bart Schaefer
1996-07-09  0:40 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-07-24 18:43   ` Bart Schaefer
1996-07-25 20:13     ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-07-25 20:52       ` Bart Schaefer
1996-07-25 20:58         ` Zoltan Hidvegi [this message]
1996-07-25 21:12           ` Bart Schaefer

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