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Message-ID: <20221229204300.ehvPd%steffen@sdaoden.eu>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 21:43:00 +0100
From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@...oden.eu>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [patch] proc.5: tell how to parse
/proc/*/stat correctly
Jeffrey Walton wrote in
<CAH8yC8=p9a71AohbLtKGzb8d8yzBYyCADUJ1xthddQsyFbdSRA@...l.gmail.com>:
...
|Using \0 as the delimiter would still require encoding of \0 when it
|is present in the data.
But it is already used in some files like /proc/self/environ.
'Just thinking, it would be the (here optional) .nul suffix that
is new. (It of course cannot happen in the C-style strings of
which all this is about. For serialization of true non-humanized
binary data "as-is", yes. I surely would go CBOR then. Though
the libcbor that i track is a huge beast, it surely can be much
smaller than that.)
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
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