Re: 2.2.17 --- extreme format string weirdness in /proc

2000-09-30 Thread Jesse Pollard
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Nix wrote: >Andries Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 03:09:10PM +0100, Nix wrote: >> >> > Yesterday, I noticed that netstat had stopped working on my 2.2.17 box >> > The reason is fairly self-evident: >> > >> > : loki:/# cat /proc/net/dev >> .

Re: 2.2.17 --- extreme format string weirdness in /proc

2000-09-30 Thread Nix
Andries Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 03:09:10PM +0100, Nix wrote: > > > Yesterday, I noticed that netstat had stopped working on my 2.2.17 box > > The reason is fairly self-evident: > > > > : loki:/# cat /proc/net/dev > ... > > : lo:%lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %

Re: 2.2.17 --- extreme format string weirdness in /proc

2000-09-30 Thread Keith Owens
On 30 Sep 2000 15:09:10 +0100, Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >: loki:/# cat /proc/net/dev >: Inter-| Receive| Transmit >: face |bytespackets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytespackets >errs drop fifo colls carrier compresse

Re: 2.2.17 --- extreme format string weirdness in /proc

2000-09-30 Thread Alan Cox
> : lo:%lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu > : eth0:%lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu > > Probably not right. > > This is repeated in other files (I only checked /proc; its > subdirectories are probably affected too, viz /proc/net/d

Re: 2.2.17 --- extreme format string weirdness in /proc

2000-09-30 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 03:09:10PM +0100, Nix wrote: > Yesterday, I noticed that netstat had stopped working on my 2.2.17 box > The reason is fairly self-evident: > > : loki:/# cat /proc/net/dev ... > : lo:%lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu > : eth0:%lu %lu %lu

2.2.17 --- extreme format string weirdness in /proc

2000-09-30 Thread Nix
Yesterday, I noticed that netstat had stopped working on my 2.2.17 box (with the reiserfs 3.5.26 patches and lm-sensors/i2c-2.5.2, as it happens), built with gcc-1.1.2. The reason is fairly self-evident: : loki:/# cat /proc/net/dev : Inter-| Receive