Re: Minor patch to correct buffer overrun

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 20:19 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Can you explain what exactly was the problem with the original code?

Well, if the size of tem was MAXPATHLEN, but the size of name was
PATH_MAX or similar, and PATH_MAX is 1024 and MAXPATHLEN is 269 (or
whatever it was), and your filename is long... that's a problem.


I think the right fix is the one we were discussing earlier: all code
that wants a static buffer large enough to house a pathname should be
changed to use PATH_MAX, and we can tweak out make.h to set PATH_MAX to
a useful value on any system where it's not yet set.

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