Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <427AEA95.7010207@byu.net> Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 21:55:01 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Eggert CC: "Pierre A. Humblet" , cygwin@cygwin.com, bug-coreutils@gnu.org Subject: Re: mkdir -p and network drives References: <3.0.5.32.20050502232204.00b52180@incoming.verizon.net> <42777719.8090103@byu.net> <8764xym6vf.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <427AD935.1010409@byu.net> <87vf5x818r.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> In-Reply-To: <87vf5x818r.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 5/5/2005 9:47 PM: >>Oops - buffer overflow bug. dirpath[2] is past the end of the string on >>dirpath of "/", > > If dirpath is "/", then dirpath[1] != '/' is true, so dirpath[2] isn't > evaluated. Oh well - chalk that one up to me not reading closely enough after a long day. I should learn not to hit send before re-reading :) But my other comment about dirpath being allocated with alloca on potentially unlimited length input is still an issue. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCeuqU84KuGfSFAYARAsPuAJ0Sz/Z7WqJElt5r0CY2iQSW23NjhgCfXQcl 1ruNPfUt1egZkV7z1m98bTc= =tl8M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/