Re: [TTY] 2 points seems strange to me.

[Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>]

linux-os wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> 
>> Paulo Marques wrote:
>>
>>> Paul Fulghum wrote:
>>>
>>>> No, it limits the size to 80 bytes,
>>>> which is the size of buf.
>>>>
>>>> sizeof returns the size of the char array buf[80]
>>>> (standard C)
>>>
>>>
>>> Looking at the code, I think Franck is right. buf is a "const 
>>> unsigned char *" for which sizeof(buf) is the size of a pointer.
>>
>>
>> What kernel version are you looking at?
>> I'm looking at 2.4.20 n_tty.c opost_block() and
>> buf is a char array.
>>
>> -- 
>> Paul Fulghum
>> Microgate Systems, Ltd.
> 
> 
> Ahaa!  That's how the bug got introduced. It used to be an
> array and then it got changed to a pointer! linux-2.4.26
> also shows a local array.

Yes, just looked at the revision history in linux.bkbits.net and Linus 
just fixed this 67 hours ago... So we're too late :)

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