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nss buffers?
- To: libc-hacker@gnu.org
- Subject: nss buffers?
- From: smurf@noris.de (Matthias Urlichs)
- Date: 12 Jan 1999 13:57:03 +0100
- Newsgroups: dist.glibc
- Organization: noris network GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG
- Xref: noris.net dist.glibc:7557
I just noticed that a getspnam() call will trash the buffer used by a
previous getpwnam(). This caused wu-ftpd to break.
Fixing wu-ftpd is simple, but what do the standards say? Is that buffer
allowed to be shared?
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