Re: [PATCH] Prevent buffer overflows when path is too big
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:
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> I'm not sure how to handle overlong path in general, there are several ways:
> a) Silently overwrite memory (with help of memcpy() and/or strcpy()
> b) Silently shorten the path using strlcpy() instead of strcpy()
> c) Avoid the overwriting and call die().
> d) Prepare a longer buffer using xmalloc()
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