Re: Buffer overflows

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On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
> Looks like nothing has happened since my last mail about this
> (http://marc.info/?l=git&m=117962988804430&w=2).

Perhaps because your patch was using a totally nonstandard and slow 
interface, and had nasty string declaration issues, as people even pointed 
out to you.

If you were to send in a patch that simply just fixed some random case 
without introducing the other stuff in forms that nobody is used to, 
people would probably react more.

Especially since:

> I sure hope no-one's using git-mailinfo to do any kind of automated mail 
> processing from untrusted users.

Obviously nobody would do that. Not because of any email buffer overflows, 
but because people wouldn't want to apply untrusted patches in the first 
place!

IOW, if I don't trust the mail, I'd sure as hell not apply it - not 
because I'm afraid the email is misformed, but because I'd not trust the 
*patch*.

			Linus
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