On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 13:36:11 +0100 Tilman Sauerbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Nathan Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-04 13:38]: > > It's a trick to allocate the file node and name in one allocation instead of > > two. Since we have the memory available for the name, the strcpy is then > > used to copy the string into the allocated space. > > Yeah, and it's even buggy. Horray. If the integer used for the byte > count overflows, we'll end up with less bytes allocated than requested, > which will blow. which will happen only if string needs > 2GB pf ram. the alloc would fail then anyway and all sorts of badness will ensue. if u check - all those strings are actuall safe as they are eithe rprovided b code itself directly or the strings hen loaded have sizes that are parsed as ints anyway thus less than 9 (underflow) is dealt with. if not - let me know -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
