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From: Mark Geisert <mark@maxrnd.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: getent services enumeration glitch
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20150819T014054-519@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6CF2FC1279D0844C9357664DC5A08BA210A9A230@msgb09.nih.gov>

Buchbinder, Barry writes:
> Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, August 18, 2015 7:24 AM
> >On Aug 18 09:40, Mark Geisert wrote:
> >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...
> 
> Not that I know what getent is, let alone having ever used it, shouldn't
> finding a bug that old merit a gold star?

Oh, please no.  A tin star if you must.  Let's keep gold stars for folks
doing the heavy lifting around here.

..mark


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  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-18 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-18  9:41 Mark Geisert
2015-08-18 11:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-08-18 17:27   ` Mark Geisert
2015-08-18 18:18     ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-08-18 18:43   ` Warren Young
2015-08-18 19:01     ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-08-18 21:49   ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2015-08-18 23:43     ` Mark Geisert [this message]
2015-08-19  7:46       ` [SILVERY GOLDSTAR] " Corinna Vinschen
2015-08-19 12:23         ` Andrew Schulman
2015-08-19 16:27           ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-08-19 16:50           ` Andrey Repin
2015-08-20 13:23             ` Andrew Schulman

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