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From: "Lukas Sandström" <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
To: "René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Buffer overflows
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:39:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46DAF550.70300@etek.chalmers.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46DAF039.2000208@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe wrote:
> And don't forget that we have our very own string library, viz.
> strbuf.c, which could see more use.
> 
> That said, I agree that bstring looks well thought out.  It's also quite
> large (lots of functions, lots of code where a bug might lurk).  Hmm.
> 
> Now if only someone could demonstrate the advantages of using bstring in
> git by posting a nice patch.. :-P
> 
> René

I'm currently working on rewriting builtin-mailinfo.c to use bstring. 
I'll hopefully have a proof-of-concept ready today or tomorrow.

/Lukas

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-02 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-30 19:26 Buffer overflows Timo Sirainen
2007-08-30 20:26 ` Lukas Sandström
2007-08-30 20:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-30 21:08   ` Timo Sirainen
2007-08-30 21:35     ` Reece Dunn
2007-08-30 21:51       ` Timo Sirainen
2007-08-30 22:34         ` Reece Dunn
2007-08-31 10:52           ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-08-31 12:48             ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-08-30 22:14       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-30 22:36         ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-08-30 22:41         ` Timo Sirainen
2007-09-02 13:42         ` Johan Herland
2007-09-02 15:11           ` Reece Dunn
2007-09-02 15:19             ` David Kastrup
2007-09-02 15:35               ` Reece Dunn
2007-09-03  0:19               ` Jakub Narebski
2007-09-03  0:31                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-02 17:17           ` René Scharfe
2007-09-02 17:39             ` Lukas Sandström [this message]
2007-08-31  4:09     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-31  5:00       ` Timo Sirainen
2007-08-31  9:53         ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-08-31 10:06         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-30 21:48 ` [PATCH] Temporary fix for stack smashing in mailinfo Alex Riesen
2007-08-30 22:53   ` Junio C Hamano

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