[scponly] scponly 3.11 various bug fixes - patch released.

wby oblyr joe at sublimation.org
Wed May 26 16:47:21 EDT 2004


thanks for this patch, david, i will incorporate your patch with a careful eye and release scponly 
3.12 shortly.

also note that the UNISON bugs have been reported by numerous people, and they too will be fixed in 
3.12

thanks all,
joe

David Ramsden wrote this message on Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:06 +0100:
> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:36:59AM +0200, Thomas Wana wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 26. Mai 2004 00:18 schrieb David Ramsden:
> > >
> > > [1] http://david.hexstream.eu.org/scponly-3.11-bugfixes.patch
> > ...
> > > snprintf(chng_dir, FILENAME_MAX, root_dir + 1, strlen(root_dir));
> > 
> > Just a note, don't use string constants as format strings.
> > While this is no format string bug here, this is the typical
> > source of format string bugs. Someone changes something
> > here in the future and *bang*.
> > 
> 
> Sorry. My bad. That was ment to look more like your line (below), with a
> format string in there!
> Thanks for finding that :-)
> 
> > Additionally, the strlen(root_dir) at the end is unneccessary.
> > 
> > Instead, use
> > 
> > snprintf(chng_dir, FILENAME_MAX, "%s", root_dir + 1);
> > 
> [snip]
> 
> I've updated my patch, just in case anyone wishes to use it!
> Much appreciated Tom. As I said, I'm not a great C programmer but I "get
> by" :)
> 
> If anyone has the time, maybe scponly should be run through `splint' to
> check for any programming errors. Just a thought.
> 
> Kind regards.
> David.
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