[augeas-devel] Is aug_get safe for buffer overflow ?

Dominique Dumont dominique.dumont at hp.com
Fri Jun 6 11:29:07 UTC 2008


James Antill <james.antill at redhat.com> writes:

>  This is a bit confused, between points and buffers. This is basically
> how aug_get() can be used:
>
>     char *ret = NULL;
>     int ret = aug_get(aug,path, &ret);
>
>     if (ret == 1) puts(ret);
>
> ...aug_set() does take a "buffer" of char, but uses strdup() on it.

Understood. Thanks a bunch for the help.

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Dominique Dumont 
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