Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270727AbTHLQJl (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:09:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270471AbTHLQJl (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:09:41 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:36104 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270462AbTHLQJj (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:09:39 -0400 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Yoshinori Sato , linux kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: generic strncpy - off-by-one error References: <200308121503.h7CF3JfZ009007@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> From: Andreas Schwab X-Yow: I'm an East Side TYPE.. Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:09:27 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200308121503.h7CF3JfZ009007@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (Valdis Kletnieks's message of "Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:03:18 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1197 Lines: 42 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes: |> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 23:50:06 +0900, Yoshinori Sato said: |>=20 |> > - while (count) { |> > + while (count > 1) { |>=20 |> Given that count is a size_t, which seems to be derived from 'unsigned i= nt' or |> 'unsigned long' on every platform, how are these any different? Let's suppose count =3D=3D 1. Andreas. =2D-=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 N=FCrnberg Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/ORFBRNUhS4J2TtURApMyAJ0Ztlec1ahWQHzzasyEZ+dzGVDBagCgxTz/ lsfE7oym0DfoXjyvgNgv+RM= =MKNC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/