Re: mkdir -p and network drives

[Eric Blake]

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According to Paul Eggert on 5/5/2005 9:47 PM:
>>Oops - buffer overflow bug.  dirpath[2] is past the end of the string on
>>dirpath of "/",
> 
> If dirpath is "/", then dirpath[1] != '/' is true, so dirpath[2] isn't
> evaluated.

Oh well - chalk that one up to me not reading closely enough after a long
day.  I should learn not to hit send before re-reading :)  But my other
comment about dirpath being allocated with alloca on potentially unlimited
length input is still an issue.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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