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From:
Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Date:
November 3, 2003 14:08
Subject:
Re: Cwd.xs: off-by-one buffer overflow in realpath()
Message ID:
20031103231321.672be2aa.rgarciasuarez@free.fr
Gisle Aas wrote:
> 
> It is probably a good idea to keep in sync the the BSD source code so
> applying the same patch as they did is the right thing.  If you want
> nitpicking I would say you should break the line after '>' like they
> did:
> 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/SA-03:08/realpath.patch

In fact it's probably a good idea to have an eye on the BSD source code.
Doesn't File::Glob use the BSD shell glob routines internally ? Anyone
has links one could watch semi-automatically ?
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