[SILVERY GOLDSTAR] Re: getent services enumeration glitch

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Aug 19 16:27:00 GMT 2015


On Aug 19 08:22, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > On Aug 18 23:43, Mark Geisert wrote:
> > > Buchbinder, Barry writes:
> > > > Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, August 18, 2015 7:24 AM
> > > > >On Aug 18 09:40, Mark Geisert wrote:
> > > > >Congratulations! You found a 13 years old bug in Cygwin's getservent
> > > > >implementation, which returned the port number in host byte order
> > > > >instead of in network byte order for all this time. Makes me wonder how
> > > > >often getservent is used in the wild...
> > > > 
> > > > Not that I know what getent is, let alone having ever used it, shouldn't
> > > > finding a bug that old merit a gold star?
> > > 
> > > Oh, please no.  A tin star if you must.  Let's keep gold stars for folks
> > > doing the heavy lifting around here.
> > 
> > Oh, come one, don't be shy.  A silver star at least,
> > 
> > Andrew, do we have silver stars in the vaults?
> 
> But of course!  https://cygwin.com/goldstars/#MG

Thanks a lot!


Corinna

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