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[RFC PATCH 2/6] msvc: opendir: allocate enough memory

From
Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 23, 2010, 17:30 UTC
Message-ID
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The defintion of DIR expects the allocating function to extend dd_name by over-allocating. This is not currently done in our implementation of opendir. Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
---
 compat/msvc.c |    9 ++++-----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/compat/msvc.c b/compat/msvc.c
index db3df51..205304e 100644
--- a/compat/msvc.c
+++ b/compat/msvc.c
@@ -5,12 +5,11 @@
 
 DIR *opendir(const char *name)
 {
-	int len;
+	int len = strlen(p->dd_name);
 	DIR *p;
-	p = xmalloc(sizeof(DIR));
-	memset(p, 0, sizeof(DIR));
-	strncpy(p->dd_name, name, PATH_MAX);
-	len = strlen(p->dd_name);
+	p = xmalloc(sizeof(DIR) + len + 2);
+	memset(p, 0, sizeof(DIR) + len + 2);
+	strcpy(p->dd_name, name);
 	p->dd_name[len] = '/';
 	p->dd_name[len+1] = '*';
 
-- 
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Message 8 of 18 in “win32-dirent”
  1. 0/6 win32-direntErik Faye-Lund, Nov 23, 2010
  2. 1/6 msvc: opendir: use xmallocErik Faye-Lund, Nov 23, 2010
  3. Jonathan NiederNov 23, 2010
  4. Erik Faye-LundNov 23, 2010
  5. Erik Faye-LundNov 23, 2010
  6. Jonathan NiederNov 23, 2010
  7. Erik Faye-LundNov 23, 2010
  8. 2/6 msvc: opendir: allocate enough memoryErik Faye-Lund, Nov 23, 2010
  9. Jonathan NiederNov 23, 2010
  10. Erik Faye-LundNov 23, 2010
  11. 3/6 msvc: opendir: do not start the searchErik Faye-Lund, Nov 23, 2010
  12. 4/6 win32: dirent: handle errorsErik Faye-Lund, Nov 23, 2010
  13. 5/6 msvc: opendir: handle paths ending with a slashErik Faye-Lund, Nov 23, 2010
  14. Jonathan NiederNov 23, 2010
  15. Erik Faye-LundNov 23, 2010
  16. 6/6 win32: use our own dirent.hErik Faye-Lund, Nov 23, 2010
  17. Jonathan NiederNov 23, 2010
  18. Erik Faye-LundNov 23, 2010

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