Re: bin/39746 (Too small buffer for long TMPDIR and unlinked-file in src/usr.bin/config/main.c)

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/39746; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
abutter.gao%gmail.com@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/39746 (Too small buffer for long TMPDIR and unlinked-file
        in src/usr.bin/config/main.c)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:36:57 +0000

 On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 03:05:05PM +0000, Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc. wrote:
  >> I'm not going to request this be pulled up to netbsd-4 because it's  
  >> noncritical and has some chance of breaking cross-building.
  >  
  >  Are you worried about new the use of _PATH_TMP?  That's already  
  >  covered in the toools/compat headers fetched by nbtool_config.h so it  
  >  shouldn't cause any problems.
  >  
  >  I'm not quite sure how such an otherwise serious bug fix could cause  
  >  problems for cross-building.
 
 The change added a couple headers and symbols that weren't previously
 used. We try to build on a lot of broken platforms. Meanwhile, it is a
 minor issue and not worth spending time on.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost