Re: identd hole?

[mouse () Collatz McRCIM McGill EDU (der Mouse)]

> its possible that its an atoi() (or more properly strtol()) bug..
> Most people run identd as root, this means that if someone happens to
> overflow a buffer (which is easily done with atoi())

Um, how can you overflow a buffer with atoi() or strtol()?  Neither one
writes to any buffer anywhere; atoi() doesn't write anything but its
return value, and strtol() writes only the pointer and its return
value.

What am I missing?

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