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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: fix to sendmail / save _environ pointer
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Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 18:53:07 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  1 18:53:07 1985
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A wonderful example of why using

	write(fd, &edata, sbrk(0) - &edata)

is a Bad Thing.  Both rogue and sendmail do this (rogue does it with
an encryption though) and both programs have various related bugs.

Yes, it's fast, but ..... eeeeauuyuck.
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