cygwin 1.3.11-3: Strange variable contents when logging via telnet

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 05:23:19PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> Here is the snippet which deals with that 'inetd_dummy' env var -
> inetd.c, line 702:
> 
>     {
>         /* space for daemons to overwrite environment for ps */
> #define DUMMYSIZE   100
>         char dummy[DUMMYSIZE];
> 
>         (void)memset(dummy, 'x', sizeof(DUMMYSIZE) - 1);
>         dummy[DUMMYSIZE - 1] = '\0';
>         (void)setenv("inetd_dummy", dummy, 1);
>     }
> 
> Obviously the memset () call is incorrect - the size argument should
> either be DUMMYSIZE - 1 or sizeof (dummy) - 1.

Thanks for finding this.  I will create a new version of inetutils
tomorrow.

> Btw I haven't found the place where this environment variable
> is used by the 'daemons', as the comment points. Maybe is is safe to
> just remove it ! :)

I have actually no idea when that inet_dummy was introduced and
what it's good for.  Perhaps Chris has a clue.

Corinna

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