Re: SECURITY PROBLEM: autofs [all versions]

["Christopher W. Curtis" <ccurtis@aet-usa.com>]

David Starner wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 07:43:57PM -0400, Christopher W. Curtis wrote:
> > Which C standard are you looking at?
> >
> > If no declaration is supplied, one is created on the fly based on the
> > first occurance of the call.
> 
> Wrong. If no declaration is supplied, arguments are promoted and passed,
> with no checking at all.

I may very well be wrong, but if I make the same call again later with
different arguments, it complains.

> Does this pointless argument really need to continue? The C stuff can
> go to the C newsgroups. The rest, well right or wrong, as for Debian and
> Debian developers, you've lost the argument.

I wish it never went this far.

Glad to know how it ended.

Christopher