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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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 18:09:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jewudix3go.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308121503.h7CF3JfZ009007@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (Valdis Kletnieks's message of "Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:03:18 -0400")

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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:

|> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 23:50:06 +0900, Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>  said:
|> 
|> > -	while (count) {
|> > +	while (count > 1) {
|> 
|> Given that count is a size_t, which seems to be derived from 'unsigned int'  or
|> 'unsigned long' on every platform, how are these any different?

Let's suppose count == 1.

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-12 16:09 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
2003-08-12 16:09     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
  -- 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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