From: nguyenhu@minatec.inpg.fr Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:49:07 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] Possibility to read both from ~/.gitconfig and from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config Message-ID: <20120601214907.Horde.e8FjWXwdC4BPyRyzuIrz5oA@webmail.minatec.grenoble-inp.fr> Ramsay Jones writes: > I have not tried this patch (or the v3 version, which I haven't read > yet), but > is it likely that this has re-introduced the bug addressed by commit 05bab3ea > ("config.c: Fix a static buffer overwrite bug by avoiding mkpath()", > >19-11-2011)?. > > I don't know the answer, but I suspect that it may have done just > that. >(indeed, it > may well have made the bug more likely to appear). > > >> The original that read from $HOME/.gitconfig was simple enough so >> having three copies of getenv("HOME") was perfectly fine, but as you >> are introduce this much complexity to to decide which two files to >> read from, the code added this patch needs to be refactored and >> three copies of the same logic need to be consolidated, I would have >> to say. > > I agree. Also, using mksnpath() in the refactored code (rather than > mkpath()) would be a good idea. :-P > > ATB, > Ramsay Jones Is not mkpath() the same function as mksnpath with char *buff = buf[PATH_MAX] and size_t n = sizeof(buf) ?