On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 08:20:16AM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote:
> >RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/sys/param.h,v
>
> Where else could howmany come from? Can you be sure it's safe to use here?
There are other places where howmany is defined, I can prepare a diff
that will cover all definitions. For now, I
On June 14, 2014 1:13:56 PM CEST, Tobias Stoeckmann
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>the howmany macro as used in param.h and select.h is prone to an
>integer
>overflow. It adds divisor-1 to the base value, which means that it
>COULD overflow.
>
>Most of the times, the howmany macro is used with file descriptor
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Tobias Stoeckmann
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the howmany macro as used in param.h and select.h is prone to an integer
> overflow. It adds divisor-1 to the base value, which means that it
> COULD overflow.
>
> Most of the times, the howmany macro is used with file descripto
Hi,
the howmany macro as used in param.h and select.h is prone to an integer
overflow. It adds divisor-1 to the base value, which means that it
COULD overflow.
Most of the times, the howmany macro is used with file descriptors and
polling, would be hard to overflow it. Especially due to C langu
