From: Duy Nguyen Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 10:33:47 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent buffer overflows when path is too big Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <52636E5A.1080909@web.de> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: > 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() d+) Use strbuf -- Duy -- -- *** Please reply-to-all at all times *** *** (do not pretend to know who is subscribed and who is not) *** *** Please avoid top-posting. *** The msysGit Wiki is here: https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki - Github accounts are free. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To post to this group, send email to msysgit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, and view previous threads, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit?hl=en_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.