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Glibc change exposing bugs

Glibc change exposing bugs

Posted Nov 11, 2010 0:04 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Glibc change exposing bugs by charlieb
Parent article: Glibc change exposing bugs

POSIX states:

> If copying takes place between objects that overlap, the behavior is undefined.

The behaviour of Linux (and Unix) systems in this area are governed by POSIX, not a random manpage. (And in this case POSIX is aligned with ISO C, and even uses the same phrasing.)


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