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From: leslie.polzer@gmx.net
Subject: Re: Handling ioctl() argp memory
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 06:23:55 +0100
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On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:54:37AM +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:

> You're probably overwriting the beginning of the allocated block.
What do you mean by that?  I can surely write to allocated memory, at
the start, end and any point between...

Besides, for the record: a short Valgrind run (thanks for the reminder!)
showed me that I calculated the space wrongly, i.e. I allocated not
enough memory.

  Leslie

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