>In article <20011105155955.A16505@codepoet.org> Erik Anderson wrote:
>> Come now, it really isn't that difficult:
>
>> char name[80];
>> if (sscanf(line, "%4u %4u %llu %s", &major, &minor, &size, name) == 4)
>
>if it's so easy to do, why do you have a great big buffer overflow here?
Because he forgot about "%80s"? But if he forgot that he may accidently
use strcpy, strcat, and gets, so...
Or maybe it was just an exercise for the reader?
-- George Greer, greerga@m-l.org http://www.m-l.org/~greerga/
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