Re: Netsurf build failure: 'PATH_MAX' undeclared
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 4:35 AM William ML Leslie
<william.leslie.ttg@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 27 Apr 2021, 6:13 am Samuel Thibault, <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
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>> It's not because something is economical that one should want to do it.
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>> You don't even seem to realize that defining PATH_MAX *does* pose
>> problem, notably with the actual semantic of realpath(), due to the
>> semantic that posix attaches to it.
>>
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> Economical would be to avoid the rich bug farm that is arbitrary but unenforced limits. PATH_MAX is an open invitation for buffer overflows on any modern system.
It is what it is. Folks are going to use PATH_MAX.
You can thank Drepper and the Glibc folks for many of the buffer
overflow problems in GNU software.
Jeff
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