bin/86135: Fwd: Latent buffer overflow in getcwd

[Andrey Chernov]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:35:53AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> While it can be so for "up", it is not so for "ep", since it is
> filled by __getcwd() syscall and can't be bigger.

I mean common normal situation, i.e. when __getcwd() returns 0.
Allocating anything else than MAXPATHLEN in that situation will 
be a waste.

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