Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/pkgtools/libnbcompat/files
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
From: grant beattie <grant@NetBSD.org>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 12/10/2003 18:23:44
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:17:34AM +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:

>   | Log Message:
>   | always use local glob.[ch] if GLOB_NOMATCH or GLOB_ABORTED aren't
>   | defined.
> 
> This should be changed to _always_ use the nbcompat glob.[ch];
> there are known security bugs in various glob implementations that
> are hard to write autoconf tests for, and it's much easier to always
> provide a known working version.  I did this a while ago for tnftp.

I've done this now, thanks for the suggestion.

grant.