Re: [Bug-gnulib] mountlist patch for buffer size overflow on OSF/1 Alphas, etc.

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> I noticed a potential (albeit highly unlikely) size overflow in
> calculating a buffer size on OSF/1 Alphas in mountlist.c.  While I was
> fixing this, I also fixed a FIXME (me_type wasn't freed) and used a
> brief style for mallocs; if this is not the style you like please let
> me know and I can back out that part of the change.  I installed the
> following:

Thanks!
I've put that in coreutils, too.
Yes, I too prefer the style of malloc/realloc invocation
that avoids explicit type names, and have recently changed
a few in coreutils/src (not yet checked in).