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Message-ID: <20190627124900.GY1506@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 08:49:00 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: getdents* bug

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 11:54:02AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> The kernel only accepts buffer size values up to INT_MAX.  I agree that
> size_t is the correct type for the buffer size, but it means that
> userspace needs to clamp large values to INT_MAX.

Thanks! I forgot that we even had an exposed version of that syscall.

Rich

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