safe_strcpy errors

Gerald Carter gcarter at valinux.com
Mon Dec 4 03:13:00 GMT 2000


Torsten Curdt wrote:
> 
> > > ERROR: string overflow by 5 in safe_strcpy
> > > [/guitar guitars tablature music mp3 olga
> > > percussio]
> >
> > Currently one of the issues that needs to be
> > rewritten in Samba is the static nature of strings
> > (fstrings & pstrings).  Both are declared as char
> > arrays with a fixed length.  The strcpy, strcat, etc...
> > functions are wrapped as to prevent buffer overflows.
> > The problem is things like what you are experiencing.
> > (although this could be caused by RPC bugs in other
> > parts of the code).
> >
> > In order to give you an honest answer, we would need
> > to see level 10 debug logs at the time of the error.
> 
> Is this a request? ;) I'd be happy helping to track this
> down...


Sure.  Send me a level 10 debug log of the failure.
I need the surrounding information 'cause I need to know
what string was being passed in.







Cheers, jerry
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