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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2013-08-08 16:33:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2013-08-08 16:33:08 +0200 |
| commit | eda6a3fc1ad721e9f8901c8628ba99aa14c9a491 (patch) | |
| tree | 79a6c01e6bb84aae02647f4f223d85370cf32827 /Changes.old | |
| parent | ff4739ceab9b04bdb9f1f6047e0c5da4c7d573bb (diff) | |
Changes.old: Minor fiix to 3.53 changelog
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Changes.old | 18 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index cb44a18a0..017b26814 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -27418,6 +27418,14 @@ readlink.2 Document use of empty 'pathname' argument Michael Kerrisk Change error check in example program from "< 0" to "== -1" + Chuck Coffing + Fix possible race condition in readlink.2 example + I noticed that the example in the readlink.2 man pages does error + checking for a race condition that would cause the value of the + symbolic link to get larger. However, it doesn't handle the + opposite case, in which the value gets shorter. (The NULL + terminator is always set at the old, longer offset.) This could + cause the program to operate on uninitialized data. setpgid.2 Michael Kerrisk [graud@gmx.com] @@ -27505,13 +27513,3 @@ ld.so.8 Document LD_BIND_NOT Michael Kerrisk [Simon Paillard] Add reference to pthreads(7) in discussion of LD_ASSUME_KERNEL - -readlink.2 - Chuck Coffing - Fix possible race condition in readlink.2 example - I noticed that the example in the readlink.2 man pages does error - checking for a race condition that would cause the value of the - symbolic link to get larger. However, it doesn't handle the - opposite case, in which the value gets shorter. (The NULL - terminator is always set at the old, longer offset.) This could - cause the program to operate on uninitialized data. |