[#8815] Segfault in libc strlen, via rb_str_new2 — "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...>

Howdy,

12 messages 2006/09/09
[#8817] Re: Segfault in libc strlen, via rb_str_new2 — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2006/09/09

On Sep 8, 2006, at 10:10 PM, Sean E. Russell wrote:

Re: [PATCH] rdoc capture output (help message)

From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-09-30 00:11:52 UTC
List: ruby-core #8966
On Sep 29, 2006, at 4:56 PM, greg weber wrote:

> Thanks for pushing back on this as a good maintainer should.   You
> guys are all doing great things here.  Nobu even re-writes my bad
> implementaions into good ones.
>
> I have a diffent idea for a much better implementation.
>  How would you feel about a patch that modified the abilities of
> :include so that what I am trying to accomplish could be done through
> one include statement instead of having to use that and a rake task?

No. Its best if just left to external code.  It is too special- 
purpose for inclusion.

(Actually, now that I think of it, either implementation sounds like  
an arbitrary code execution exploit waiting to happen.)

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