On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 22:58, Tim Potter wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 11:10:58AM +1000, Tim Potter wrote:
>
> > > Solaris has a couple extra fields in struct passwd. Since getpwent(3c)
> > > says that pw_age and pw_comment are not used, it seems reasonable not to
> > > fill them in. nscd may not use them, but assumes that they at least are
> > > pointers to allocated buffers. Since they are are not pointers to
> > > allocated buffers, a SEGV occurs.
>
> OK I've checked in a patch to the HEAD branch. Would you mind seeing if
> this correctly fixes the problem? If so I'll merge it into the other
> branches.
>
>
> Tim.
One question about your implementation...
#if HAVE_PASSWD_PW_COMMENT
result->pw_comment = "";
#endif
#if HAVE_PASSWD_PW_AGE
result->pw_age = "";
#endif
Does "" get allocated statically, or on the stack? If it gets allocated
on the stack, then garbage could replace it at some time in the future.
Mike
