Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:51:27 +0000 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: BUG: bsd pts now climbs continuously |
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Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2004-08-10 at 05:07, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>>ssh breaks at 9999 which is fun too. It runs out of buffer space >>>although because its been properly coded it doesn't overrun it just >>>starts corrupting utmp >>> >> >>This I believe is a glibc bug, and really needs to be fixed. >>Unfortunately glibc's handling of utmp is just incredibly broken. > > > How remarkable given the snprintf line in question is in the sshd > source code. >
OK, that wasn't the bug I was thinking about, then :)
I was referring to the "line id" stuff in utmp, which really seems too broken to live. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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