On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Angus Mezick wrote:
> My main worry with this is wether or not it creates a core dump... I
> don't think it will as strlen just searched down the list for a '\0'
> (i hope)
Touching the variables at all seemed to cause a crash, not immediately, but
after clear_buffer() exited.
> BTW: I love the magic number syntax... works much quicker then my idea
> of if(clearme->size<strlen(clearme->data)) crash;
Nod.
> You might want to use a different magic number though, for example
> '0x06' which is ACK and only supposed to be used for networking....
> don't think it will appear in the middle of a string like '='(0x3D)
> will.
Thanks, I've changed it.
(I thought the original message was CC:'d to the list so I deleted it from
bacon when I received it since I can only reply to the list from dragon.)
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