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Re: [patch] Fix BZ #18660 -- overflow in getusershell
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, GLIBC Devel <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias at stoeckmann dot org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:26:44 +0200
- Subject: Re: [patch] Fix BZ #18660 -- overflow in getusershell
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Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:
> how can we justify this ugly code in the name of speed ?
This ugly code was lifted directly from BSD ...
Andreas.
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