Re: first patch to security problem

[Mike Guidero <kymermosst@penguinpowered.com>]

Decklin Foster wrote:
> But then there's a hardcoded limit on the number of arguments. I
> changed it to use realloc instead, but realloc is modifying my data. I
> suspect that malloc is getting confused somewhere; earlier I was able
> to GTK to crash in completely unrelated sections of code just by
> calling realloc a lot.

That sounded like what was happening as I was trying eliminate the
IRC::user_list() bug in perl.c  once I overflowed the buffer, it would crash in
unrelated areas...

Hrmm... but I fixed that one :)

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