[Fwd: Re: readdir_r considered harmful]

["William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net>]

More followup, including other supported platforms.

Bill


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: readdir_r considered harmful
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:16:42 +0000
From: Ben Hutchings <be...@decadentplace.org.uk>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com, full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk
References: <20...@decadentplace.org.uk>

I wrote:
> readdir_r considered harmful
> ============================

A second revision of this advisory (and any future revisions) can be
found at <http://womble.decadentplace.org.uk/readdir_r-advisory.html>.
I have updated the recommendations to cover HP-UX and Tru64 properly.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare ...
and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. - Linus Torvalds

Re: [Fwd: Re: readdir_r considered harmful]

[mark benedetto king <mb...@lowlatency.com>]

Based on further investigation, I believe my initial concern
was unwarranted.  I apologize for any confusion this may have
caused.

--ben


On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 10:56:54AM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> More followup, including other supported platforms.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: readdir_r considered harmful
> Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:16:42 +0000
> From: Ben Hutchings <be...@decadentplace.org.uk>
> To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com, full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk
> References: <20...@decadentplace.org.uk>
> 
> I wrote:
> >readdir_r considered harmful
> >============================
> 
> A second revision of this advisory (and any future revisions) can be
> found at <http://womble.decadentplace.org.uk/readdir_r-advisory.html>.
> I have updated the recommendations to cover HP-UX and Tru64 properly.
> 
> Ben.
> 
> -- 
> Ben Hutchings
> When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare ...
> and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. - Linus Torvalds
>