[PATCH] files-hosts fix for to small buffer
Thorsten Kukuk
kukuk@suse.de
Wed Nov 21 04:28:00 GMT 2001
Hi,
If you have one alias for a lot of entries in /etc/hosts or very
long lines, the current glibc version will fail. Reason: files-hosts.
from libnss_files runs out of buffer space, but does not set all
variables, so it will never be called with a bigger buffer. Appended
patch fixes this problem.
Thorsten
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2001-11-22 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
* nss/nss_files/files-hosts.c (_nss_files_get##name##_r): Set
herrnop to NETDB_INTERNAL if we run out of buffer space.
--- nss/nss_files/files-hosts.c
+++ nss/nss_files/files-hosts.c 2001/11/22 13:16:24
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@
>= buffer + buflen) \
{ \
*errnop = ERANGE; \
+ *herrnop = NETDB_INTERNAL; \
status = NSS_STATUS_TRYAGAIN; \
break; \
} \
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