Re: crypt and null termination

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > It seems to say that the salt passed to crypt should be null-terminated,
> 
> Hmm.  The HPUX man page for crypt() just says that
>     salt is a two-character string chosen from the set [a-zA-Z0-9./]
> which I think is the traditional spec.  Looks like BSD has adopted some
> local extensions.
> 
> Note that the BSD page specifies that the extended salt format starts
> with '_', which is not one of the allowed characters in the traditional
> format.  I bet they check that before trying to fetch more than 2 bytes.
> The second paragraph you quote doesn't say anything about null
> termination.
> 
> Still, it wouldn't be a bad idea to add a null byte ... couldn't hurt.

That was my feeling, and it may explain some of our crypt() platform
failures!

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