[patch] build fix for HURD
Martin Bialasinski
martin at internet-treff.uni-koeln.de
Fri Jul 13 16:46:19 UTC 2001
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> The patch is wrong. PATH_MAX is not defined for a reason. There is no
> upper limit for the path length on GNU/Hurd.
Yes. Therefore, you have to define it, when the Hurd doesn't set it, but
MC uses the value, right?
> Note that the buffer in
> get_presorted_from() is allocated on the stack - exceeding it means crash
> in the best case or an exploit if a malicious user prepares `.order' for
> you.
I am Cc:ing Marcus, let's see what he says.
Ciao,
Martin
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