Hi Alistair, On 3/12/10 4:37 PM, Alistair Gee wrote: > I am using R-2-10 from subversion. > > In the implementation of do_listfiles() in platform.c, it appears to > allocate a vector of length count where count is calculated by > count_files(). It then proceeds to call list_files(), passing in the > vector but not the value of count. Yet list_files() doesn't seem to > check the length of the vector that was allocated. > > What happens if a new file was added to the file system between the > call to count_files() and list_files()? Doesn't this write past the > length of the allocated vector?
Good catch. I've added a length check to prevent a problem. Cheers, + seth ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel