[Xcb] [PATCH:xcb-util] Make sure wm_class name strings are null-terminated
Arnaud Fontaine
arnaud at andesi.org
Tue Jun 15 07:29:55 PDT 2010
Hi,
>> I see ICCCM claims WM_CLASS are always null-terminated, when I
>> found they weren't always in practice.
> After digging into this more, I'm not sure if any patch is needed
> here. It depends on whether you want to expose bugs in other
> people's code, or protect API callers from them.
IMO, a patch isn't needed because I don't think this is a good idea to
make an heap allocation just to workaround buggy code. Maybe an assert()
would be enough?
--
Arnaud Fontaine (arnau)
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