Re: Buffer overflow in name_to_tcb

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* Message by -Joerg Schilling- from Wed 2011-06-15:

> > > There is a trick to make over-picky compilers quiet......
> > >=20
> > > change strcpy(ptb->dbuf.t_name, name); to:
> > >=20
> > > 	strcpy(ptb->ndbuf.t_name, name);
> > >=20
> > > and try again.....
> >
> > This works.
> >
> > Is it intended as a permanent fix?
>=20
> This is seen as a workaround as an intentionally wrong data structure var=
iant=20
> cannot be seen as a fix.

I see the workaround has been incorporated into 2011-06-22.

I have compiled that version with my usual CFLAGS including

  -fstack-protector-all -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3D2

There were no more problems, although I pushed a dozen TB through=20
star the last days.

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