Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Nov 2001 20:06:48 -0500 (EST) | From | George Greer <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff] |
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On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 dank@trellisinc.com wrote:
>In article <20011105155955.A16505@codepoet.org> Erik Anderson wrote: >> Come now, it really isn't that difficult: > >> char name[80]; >> if (sscanf(line, "%4u %4u %llu %s", &major, &minor, &size, name) == 4) > >if it's so easy to do, why do you have a great big buffer overflow here?
Because he forgot about "%80s"? But if he forgot that he may accidently use strcpy, strcat, and gets, so...
Or maybe it was just an exercise for the reader?
-- George Greer, greerga@m-l.org http://www.m-l.org/~greerga/
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