[TUHS] Bugs in V6 'dcheck'
Noel Chiappa
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Mon Jun 2 13:18:07 AEST 2014
> From: "Ron Natalie" <ron at ronnatalie.com>
> The variable in question was a global static, 'ino' (the current inode
> number),
> Static is a much overloaded word in C, it's just a global variable.
Sorry; I was using 'static' in the general CS sense, not C-specific!
> in the version 7 version of icheck .. they appear to have fixed it.
Actually, they seem to have got all three bugs I saw (including the one I
hadn't actually experienced yet, which would cause a segmentation violation).
> From: Tim Newsham <tim.newsham at gmail.com>
> There are bugs to be found .. Here are some more (security related, as
> thats my inclination):
> ...
> http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/unix-jun72/2008-May/000126.html
Fascinating mailing list! Thanks for the pointer.
Noel
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