From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 07:33:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Fix a segfault caused by regexec() being called on mmap()ed data
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609080931250.129229@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1473319844.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Hi,

On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> We solve this by introducing a helper, regexec_buf(), that takes a
> pointer and a length instead of a NUL-terminated string.

BTW I should have clarified why I decided on another name than regexecn()
(I had considered this even before reading Peff's proposed patch): the <n>
in string functions suggest a limiting of NUL-terminated strings. In other
words, if n = 100 and the provided pointer points to a NUL-terminated
string of length 3, the *n function will treat it as a string of length 3.

That is not what regexec_buf() does: it ignores the NUL. Hence the
different name.

Ciao,
Dscho