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Subject: Re: BUG: bsd pts now climbs continuously
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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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.

Alan