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From: Florian Zumbiehl <florz@florz.de>
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:01:39 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix buffer overflow in udev_util_replace_whitespace()
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Hi,

[...]
> after
> 
> strnlen("a", 2-1) = 0

| $ cat foo.c
| 
| #include <string.h>
| #include <stdio.h>
| 
| int main(){
| 	printf("%u\n",strnlen("a",2-1));
| 	return 0;
| }
| 
| $ gcc -o foo foo.c
| $ ./foo
| 1
| $ 

Florian