So you think you are (or wanna be) a hacker

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

I found this interesting article:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7990

As I have a pretty clear view of my limitations as a C coder I thought 
I'd take a look.

See how you score on the examples here:
http://www.nostarch.com/frameset.php?startat=hownotc

So set the ball rolling, here is a snippet from a program I found via 
freshmeat the other day:
	configfile = malloc(strlen(getenv("HOME")) + 20);
	sprintf(configfile,"%s/%s",getenv("HOME"), cfgfile);

Can you see what's wrong with it? (if you fancy yourself as a hacker and 
think it's pretty obvious, hold back a bit and give someone else a chance).



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Cheers
John

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