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Re: MacOS problem with "checking whether strcasestr works in linear time


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)
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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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