Re: user/3228: Arla is broken after string clean

The following reply was made to PR user/3228; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ted Unangst <tedu@stanford.edu>
To: gnats@openbsd.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: user/3228: Arla is broken after string clean Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:11:40 -0700 (PDT)

 you're correct. the buffer could be much larger. the afs code overwrites  its buffer deliberately for long filenames. it's not clear an unbounded  strcpy is always safe, and even if so, it's contrary to the intended  direction. this needs some further review.      

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