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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 11:31:12 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: Patrick Oppenlander <patrick.oppenlander@...il.com>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Some questions
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 03:29:39PM +1000, Patrick Oppenlander wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 1:16 PM, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 12:52:06PM +1000, Patrick Oppenlander wrote:
> >> - getcwd returned buffer size can be incorrect. If you call
> >> getcwd(NULL, 1234) the returned buffer is sized to match the path
> >> length but should be 1234 to be compatible with the glibc extension.
> >
> > I'll look at this. It seems like a worse behavior for most callers,
> > but maybe it should match.
>
> Actually, my biggest issue with getcwd is that it allocates a PATH_MAX
> sized buffer on the stack. That's painful on deeply embedded stuff.
That's unrelated, and could/should be fixed by the attached patch I
think.
Rich
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