Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> What do people think about using (sizeof(struct passwd) + BUFLEN/2) rather
> than BUFLEN for the getpwuid_r size, or (sizeof(struct passwd) + MAXPGPATH*2)?
> That would reduce the stack requirements and still be safe, I think.
Why bother?
Peter did not say what his closed-source app could tolerate. Without
that knowledge you're just flying blind about fixing his problem.
I see no reason to risk creating buffer-overflow issues for other people
in order to make a maybe-or-maybe-not improvement for one rather broken
closed-source app...
regards, tom lane