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Re: gzip bug w/ patch..


From: "Tim J. Robbins" <tim () robbins dropbear id au>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 13:05:38 +1100

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 02:26:10PM -0000, greg wrote:

well anyway, there is an attached patch, bye.

-           strcpy(nbuf,dir);
+           strncpy(nbuf, dir, sizeof(nbuf) - 1);

You must ensure the trailing NUL character is at the end of the
string:
  nbuf[sizeof(nbuf) - 1] = '\0';


Tim


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