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Re: [PATCH] avoid buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create (BZ #22542)

From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux dot org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
Cc: Martin Sebor <msebor at gmail dot com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 04:55:31 +0300
Subject: Re: [PATCH] avoid buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create (BZ #22542)
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On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 05:36:50PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
[...]
> I suggest that sun_path should use ordinary string format, since that's what 
> people expect.

Do people really expect that?  Assuming that people are aware
of linux kernel behaviour, why would they expect that?


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