On 23-Dec-98 D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> Petr Novotny writes:
>   [ if there's a security hole in getpwnam() ]
>> Then the whole system is fucked up,
> 
> Not necessarily. There are very few privileged programs that feed
> untrusted data to getpwnam(), aside from MTAs.
> 
> Anyway, folks, thanks for participating in the mailing list volume test.
> On the mailing list machine, at concurrency 120, qmail sustained a rate
> of 1.5 million deliveries/day. 

Glad to help, Dan.

>                                  Enjoy the holidays.


You too!

Vince.
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