Re: [glob2-devel] YOG metaserver

[Hein-Pieter van Braam]

On Friday 03 December 2004 15:41, Stéphane Magnenat wrote:

err... apparantly its not working :) I didn't mean to, but I crashed it again.

the username in the metaserver is a char[32] but I don't think it's checked 
anywhere, I'm looking into it. (in glob2 itself the name of the yog username 
is capped at 33 characters???) 

a quick workaround would be limiting the size of the input field in glob2... 
but that's not exactly a solution.

greetings,

hp

> Hi,
>
> I've created a script that reruns YOG 1 second after crash once log has
> been saved.
>
> > The YOG metaserver crashed again, can you restart it please? I think I
> > crashed it as the same thing happened as yesterday, I tried a nick of a
> > lot of a's to check if my new code to report that the nick can't be used
> > on freenode works...
> >
> > apparantly the metaserver doesn't like that...
>
> Ok. We should give a look at it, probably a buffer overflow in the server.
> Nuage if you have time, could you give a look at it ? Otherwise I'll try to
> investigate the problem asap.
>
> Thanks for reporting,
>
> Steph
>
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