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Re: minor problems in git.c

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SVSven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date
Dec 1, 2005, 13:51 UTC
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<20051201135113.GW8383MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 01:48:35PM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote:
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> @@ -283,16 +283,15 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **e
>  	len = strlen(git_command);
>  	prepend_to_path(git_command, len);
>  
> -	strncat(&git_command[len], "/git-", sizeof(git_command) - len);
> -	len += 5;
> -	strncat(&git_command[len], argv[i], sizeof(git_command) - len);
> +	snprintf(git_command + len, sizeof(git_command) - len, "/git-%s",
> +		 argv[i]);
Shouldn't you check the return value of snprintf
>  	if (access(git_command, X_OK))
>  		usage(exec_path, "'%s' is not a git-command", argv[i]);
or use the (possibly) truncated version of the command in the error message ?
skimo
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