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[Christopher Brannon]

> I also suspect that if read reads sizeof(buf) bytes and then you set
> buf[sizeof(buf)] = 0 you will possibly touch memory that isn't yours.

Yep, this is a buffer overrun.  Additionally, the OP isn't
checking the return value of read().  It returns -1 on failure, in which
case, it should not be used as an index into the buffer.

-- Chris
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