[Gcl-devel] Patch for ~username code

[Jerry James]

This is another patch against 2.6.7 + the current Debian patch.  This
one does a couple of minor cleanups to the code that handles filenames
starting with "~username".  First, such names may be greater than 20
characters long, so this code may overflow its buffer.  On Fedora,
they can be 256 characters long.  The patch uses LOGIN_NAME_MAX
instead.  Second, the variable "q" is initialized twice with the same
value, so this patch removes the second initialization.  Finally,
since we already know that q[0] == '~', there is no point in starting
the loop at index 0.  Starting it at index 1 also gets gcc to stop
whining about a possibly negative array index when setting name[n - 1]
to zero.

Regards,
-- 
Jerry James
http://loganjerry.googlepages.com/

gcl-2.6.7-loginname.patch
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