I wrote:
> readdir_r considered harmful
>
A second revision of this advisory (and any future revisions) can be
found at <http://womble.decadentplace.org.uk/readdir_r-advisory.html>.
I have updated the recommendations to cover HP-UX and Tru64 properly.
B
3APA3A wrote:
> Dear Ben Hutchings,
>
>
> If someone uses pathconf to determine buffer size it's his own problem
> and he creates vulnerability by himself. You can list such applications
> as vulnerable to race conditions.
> NAME_MAX is defined in limits.h and
readdir_r considered harmful
Issued by Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-11-01.
Background
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The POSIX readdir_r function is a thread-safe version of the readdir
function used to read directory entries. Whereas readdir returns a
pointer to a
