| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: crypt and null termination |
| Date: | 2001-08-17 23:08:29 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.30.0108180106530.677-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Bruce Momjian writes:
> > Bruce Momjian writes:
> >
> > > Anyway, the patch is small so I will apply it. There is no telling what
> > > OS's expect a character string there.
> >
> > There's a pretty good telling: Nobody ever reported a problem related to
> > this.
>
> We have had crypts that didn't work across platforms.
That's because they used different encoding algorithms. A missing null
terminator has different effects, across platforms or not.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
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