Subj : Improvements to linux dosemu support
To   : GitLab note in main/sbbs
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Tue Dec 15 2020 20:07:46

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/merge_requests/56#note_1228

A couple of things here: using *exact* sizes for small strings is especially dangerous (off-by-one is a popular mistake and cause of stack corruption). Better to over-allocate or even better yet: don't allocate at all. Just use `const char* runtype;` in this case and then assign it the constant value you want later (e.g. `runtype = "something";`). No chance of accidental buffer overflow then.
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