Re: BUG: bsd pts now climbs continuously

[H. Peter Anvin]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2004-08-10 at 05:07, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > > ssh breaks at 9999 which is fun too. It runs out of buffer space
> > > although because its been properly coded it doesn't overrun it just
> > > starts corrupting utmp
> >
> > This I believe is a glibc bug, and really needs to be fixed.
> > Unfortunately glibc's handling of utmp is just incredibly broken.
>
>
> How remarkable given the snprintf line in question is in the sshd
> source code.

OK, that wasn't the bug I was thinking about, then :)

I was referring to the "line id" stuff in utmp, which really seems too 
broken to live.
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