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Re: getXXent.c endless loop
- To: kukuk@weber-eb.uni-paderborn.de
- Subject: Re: getXXent.c endless loop
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
- Date: 09 Aug 1998 09:16:34 -0700
- Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com
- References: <98080820414600.01291@voyager>
- Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@weber-eb.uni-paderborn.de> writes:
> In nss/getXXent.c, there is a bug: If we need once more memory, errno is set
> to ERANGE., but never set back. If we have read the last entry, errno is
> ERANGE, and we will allocate all available memory.
Which backend? The clean solution for this is to set errno in the
backends whenever they return errors. I.e., if the error is caused by
something different than a buffer overflow errno should be set to a
value != ERANGE.
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