Re: [PATCH] MIPS getdomainname() off by 1;

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On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 08:21:01PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > irix_getdomainname() max size appears to be off by 1;
> > other similar code in kernel uses __NEW_UTS_LEN as the max size,
> > and <domainname> includes an extra byte for the terminating
> > null character.
> >
> > Does sysirix.c need to limit <len> to 63 instead of 64 for some
> > reason?
>
> I would know why - and it has other bugs also, so I removed it by the
> normal Linux getdomainname(2) for SysV flavour syscalls, too.

I saw you even removed it from 2.0. Woow! ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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