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authorMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2006-08-24 22:49:58 +0000
committerMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2006-08-24 22:49:58 +0000
commit459481195ac0d4738a9d200a1b5d470ac92b9bc4 (patch)
tree7dca71714aee65498bcd6cacb41baf1202dc2d1c
parent8a7a7e9575f69bca337b304e5b748e72c5433e66 (diff)
Remove a redundant fix for a buffer overflow in Coreutils
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7777 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml10
-rw-r--r--chapter06/coreutils.xml5
-rw-r--r--general.ent4
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index efa2d2b15..e79176b0a 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,16 @@
</listitem>
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>2006-08-24</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[matthew] - Remove the supposed fix for a buffer overflow in
+ Coreutils, as it has been fixed upstream.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>2006-08-17</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
diff --git a/chapter06/coreutils.xml b/chapter06/coreutils.xml
index bc614c205..a8cc1a621 100644
--- a/chapter06/coreutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/coreutils.xml
@@ -64,11 +64,6 @@
without this patch.</para>
</note>
- <para>It has been found that translated messages sometimes overflow a buffer
- in the <command>who -Hu</command> command. Increase the buffer size:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/_LEN 6/_LEN 20/' src/who.c</userinput></screen>
-
<para>Now prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index aa3ac6019..0a79c121e 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20060817">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "August 17, 2006">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20060824">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "August 24, 2006">
<!ENTITY milestone "6.3">
<!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->