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



On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:59:36AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> 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);

The length of HOME could increase between invocations.  I don't fancy 
myself a very good C programmer, so I piped up.



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