[PATCH] close potential buffer overflow in prot_flush (was: Re: [PATCH] imapd segfaults after broken pipe)

[Rob Siemborski]

I've committed/credited this as well.

Thanks,
-Rob

On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> On Sun, 05 Jan 2003, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sun, 05 Jan 2003, Gerd v. Egidy wrote:
> > > > The attached patch fixes this.
>
> The attached patch fixes the bug in prot_flush. It also adds an assert that
> protects the code from another potentially letal bug.
>
> Gerd's patch fixes another issue, which is that putc really should not be
> suceeding on write streams that are on error or closed.
>
> --
>   "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
>   them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
>   where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
>   Henrique Holschuh
>

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