Re: [TTY] 2 points seems strange to me.

[Paulo Marques]

Paul Fulghum wrote:
> Paulo Marques wrote:
>
> > Paul Fulghum wrote:
> >
> > > No, it limits the size to 80 bytes,
> > > which is the size of buf.
> > >
> > > sizeof returns the size of the char array buf[80]
> > > (standard C)
> >
> >
> > Looking at the code, I think Franck is right. buf is a "const unsigned 
> > char *" for which sizeof(buf) is the size of a pointer.
>
>
> What kernel version are you looking at?
> I'm looking at 2.4.20 n_tty.c opost_block() and
> buf is a char array.

Oops, this should have been clarified sooner...

I was looking at a 2.6.11-rc2 tree I have hanging around here. So maybe 
the "buf" type was changed and the condition remained, and that produced 
the bug.

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