Re: getent services enumeration glitch

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

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On Aug 18 17:27, Mark Geisert wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > On Aug 18 09:40, Mark Geisert wrote:
> > > $ getent services man
> > > man                   9535/tcp
> > > 
> > > $ getent services | grep man
> > > man                   16165/tcp
> > > 
> > Congratulations!  You found a 13 years old bug in Cygwin's getservent
> > implementation, which returned the port number in host byte order
> > instead of in network byte order for all this time.  Makes me wonder
> > how often getservent is used in the wild...
> > 
> > Since I uploaded 2.2.1-0.2 just before your bug report, I quickly
> > created a new snapshot with the patch on https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> > Please give it a try.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Corinna
> 
> The new snapshot solves the issue for me.  I'll see if I can stumble upon a
> more substantial bug next time :)

Haha, yeah, but I think it's substantial enough.  I'm just puzzled that
this bug could live all this time unhampered.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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