Subject: Re: SUP
To: Neil J. McRae <neil@domino.org>
From: David Brownlee <david@mono.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/20/1996 18:24:17
On Sat, 20 Apr 1996, Neil J. McRae wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Apr 1996 09:42:14 -0400 (EDT)
> dej@achilles.net (David Jones) wrote:
>
> > > Anyone ported sup to sunos? and can give me a patch/source?
> >
> > Yup. It wasn't all that hard - mainly filling in strerror() and
> > friends. I might have also had to remove encryption and compression
> > but I'm not sure. I've since removed the source since this was disk
> > space on my school account.
> >
> I got stuck on vsnprintf() ...
>
The 'quick hack' approach is to
#define vsnprintf=vprintf
and have a quick check the buffer sizes are nice & large. :)
I'm sure the syslog patches that came out not so long ago to
stop buffer overflows on just about every syslog around had
a version of snprintf - does anyone have a copy of those patches?
David/abs (david@mono.org)
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