On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:53:20AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 10:35 AM, Ben Collins wrote: > > >No, sshd should be checking the validity of the data that is returned > >to > >it. > > If a program makes a correct library call to glibc, and glibc returns a > result code that indicates success, and yet returns data the > contradicts the relevant documentation, standards, etc. How is that a > bug in the program making the library call? > > This seems either a bug in glibc or the 2.2 kernels. Saying its in the > client program seems rather far fetched.
Glibc expects the correct data from the kernel. So by your logic, the kernel has the bug, ultimately. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
