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Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine

From: Todd.Miller () COURTESAN COM (Todd C. Miller)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:32:19 -0600


In message <v6pver2kl7.fsf () kechara lh vix com>
        so spake Michael Graff (explorer):

I tested a NetBSD/i386-1.3.2 machine just now, which also returned
EINVAL.


That's not correct behavior either.  iov_len is unsigned so making it
-1 (which is the unsigned value 4294967295) should not be an error.

 - todd

Current thread:

Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Jason Thorpe (Jul 27)
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- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Michael Graff (Jul 27)
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