From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: William Gallafent <william.gallafent@virgin.net>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
linux kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: generic strncpy - off-by-one error
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:19:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200308121619.h7CGJpfZ010471@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:54:05 BST." <Pine.LNX.4.53.0308121652020.13364@officebedroom.oldvicarage>
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On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:54:05 BST, William Gallafent said:
> Er, consider the case of count == 1. Fenceposts can be dangerous things.
Amen, given the original code and the first attempt to fix it. I was actually
trolling for "accidentally correct" versus "intentionally correct".
/Valdis (who has posted "convince me the code is right THIS time" waay too
many times on waaay too many lists already today - including one count-the-on-bits
scheme that only worked for an all-zeros input.. ;)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-12 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-12 14:07 generic strncpy - off-by-one error Yoshinori Sato
2003-08-12 14:39 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-08-12 14:50 ` Yoshinori Sato
2003-08-12 15:03 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-08-12 15:54 ` William Gallafent
2003-08-12 16:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2003-08-12 16:09 ` Andreas Schwab
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-20 7:43 Peter Kjellerstedt
2003-08-16 21:10 Peter Kjellerstedt
2003-08-18 18:41 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-16 20:08 Peter Kjellerstedt
2003-08-16 9:19 Peter Kjellerstedt
2003-08-16 10:04 ` Daniel Forrest
2003-08-18 16:40 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-16 8:15 Peter Kjellerstedt
2003-08-16 8:41 ` Daniel Forrest
2003-08-18 16:17 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-18 16:06 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-15 9:54 Peter Kjellerstedt
2003-08-15 17:52 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-15 9:53 Peter Kjellerstedt
2003-08-15 17:47 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-14 9:34 Peter Kjellerstedt
2003-08-14 19:45 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-08-14 20:24 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-13 3:09 Anthony Truong
2003-08-13 2:18 Albert Cahalan
2003-08-13 2:47 ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-13 3:38 ` Albert Cahalan
2003-08-13 3:56 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-13 5:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-08-13 19:03 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-12 1:56 Anthony Truong
2003-08-12 17:14 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-12 21:53 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2003-08-12 1:28 Anthony Truong
2003-08-12 16:24 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
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