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Re: Fixing the NCSA HTTPD 1.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul 'Shag' Walmsley)
Wed Feb 15 07:14:50 1995
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 02:31:15 -0600 (CST)
From: "Paul 'Shag' Walmsley" <ccshag@cclabs.missouri.edu>
To: Thomas Lopatic <lopatic@dbs.informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net, riddle@is.rice.edu, andrew@www.elsevier.co.uk,
ckd@loiosh.kei.com
In-Reply-To: <199502141854.TAA02860@lionsden.informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
On Tue, 14 Feb 1995, Thomas Lopatic wrote:
> 2. have getline() read only 1000 characters instead of HUGE_STRING_LEN
> (file http_request.c: getline(l,HUGE_STRING_LEN/4,in,timeout) instead
> of getline(l,HUGE_STRING_LEN,in,timeout))
I don't see any obvious problems with it (then again, I'm no expert on
NCSA's code) but I'm curious: is there any rationale behind the magic
number 4 here, or is that an essentially arbitrary decision?
- Paul "Shag" Walmsley <ccshag@cclabs.missouri.edu>
"I'll drink a toast to bold evolution any day!"
