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Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die.
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die. |
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Sat, 29 Oct 2016 12:22:27 -0400 |
> strncpy(sm_reply.text, str, sizeof(sm_reply.text));
> sm_reply.text[sizeof(sm_reply.text) - 1] = '\0';
If this is what I think it is ... you know, I think this truncation is
benign.
There are a number of cases where we are getting a error message from,
say, an SMTP server and display it to the user. In that case, I think
truncating a displayed error message is perfectly fine and should not
result in an abort(). I believe when I wrote netsec that all error
messages are returned in allocated memory so that shouldn't be an issue,
but changing all of the callers of it was too big of a job.
--Ken
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Ralph Corderoy, 2016/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Ralph Corderoy, 2016/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Paul Vixie, 2016/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Steffen Nurpmeso, 2016/10/25
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Paul Vixie, 2016/10/25
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Ralph Corderoy, 2016/10/29
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Steffen Nurpmeso, 2016/10/29
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Ralph Corderoy, 2016/10/29
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die.,
Ken Hornstein <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Ralph Corderoy, 2016/10/29
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Ralph Corderoy, 2016/10/29
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/29
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Paul Vixie, 2016/10/29
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Ralph Corderoy, 2016/10/29
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Paul Vixie, 2016/10/29
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Lyndon Nerenberg, 2016/10/29
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/30
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] strncpy(3), die, die, die., Lyndon Nerenberg, 2016/10/24