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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:48:17 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@...inelinux.org>
To: Rostislav Skudnov <rostislav@...era.com>
Cc: <musl@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] increase buffer size in getmntent to 4096 bytes
On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:24:25 +0000
Rostislav Skudnov <rostislav@...era.com> wrote:
> getmntent fails if the length of the mount entry exceeds the buffer
> size. The new buffer size matches that of glibc.
> ---
> Even after this patch, getmntent may still fail since the device and mount
> paths may be up to PATH_MAX in length, and the mount options may
> (theoretically) have unlimited length. The same would happen in glibc, though.
This patch solve the same problem, but uses getline to malloc the buffer as needed:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2016/09/08/1
-nc
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