Re: Patch to enable a succesful build of abiword 2.9.2 on GNU/Hurd

From: Martin Sevior <msevior_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun Jan 22 2012 - 01:41:09 CET

Hi Svante,

Unfortunately I think your patch is insecure and may lead to buffer
overrun exploits. Is there no PATH_MAX equivalent in GNU/Hurd? Maybe
we could use a std:string instead?

Cheers

Martin

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Svante Signell
<svante.signell@telia.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> Cc: Debian Maintainer Dimity Smirnov
>
> With the attached patch abiword-2.9.2 builds successfully on Debian
> GNU/Hurd. The major problem is that PATH_MAX is not defined. This patch
> has already been added to the Debian version 2.9.2-2, but an upstream
> adoption would be very nice, so that next release of abiword builds out
> of the box also for GNU/Hurd.
>
> Thanks,
> Svante Signell
>
Received on Sun Jan 22 01:41:20 2012

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