Hi Paul, > I installed the attached patch into Gnulib > to fix the bug, which appears to be so unlikely that it's not worth > losing sleep over.
Thanks! I've propagated it to GNU libsigsegv. > As near as I can make out, this was the only defect report by Coverity > that was not a false alarm. Well, from my point of view, since the file being read is from the /proc file system, I assume that such synthetic files constructed by the kernel are small (in the range of < 16 KB). Anyway, if it helps avoid an alarm from static code analysis tools, the better. Bruno