Svante Signell, le Wed 28 Dec 2011 10:17:24 +0100, a écrit : > On GNU/Linux shortening the resolvedname vector from PATH_MAX to 64 > results in a stack corruption. This is not nice, but since that vector > is allocated on the stack, maybe it is more acceptable than an > environment corruption.
Well, this is not surprising to get crashes when cheating with PATH_MAX: the kernel still thinks PATH_MAX is 4096, and thus thinks that the buffer is actually 4096 bytes long, and thus happily overwrites whatever is after it if userland doesn't make it so. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111228093312.GY2813@type
