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From: | Eric Blake |
Subject: | Re: MacOS problem with "checking whether strcasestr works in linear time" |
Date: | Mon, 9 Jun 2008 22:37:56 +0000 (UTC) |
User-agent: | Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) |
Ian Beckwith <ianb <at> erislabs.net> writes: > I received a report that the gnulib "checking whether strcasestr works > in linear time" configure test on MacOS hangs for "3 to 4 hours" > before completing. Presumably this means the alarm() call in the test > doesn't work. Actually, it's our ploy to get people to complain to their vendor that their libc QoI is poor :) We've just proven that a poor strstr implementation leads to a form of denial-of-service attack. -- Eric Blake
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