* ext/syck/rubyext.c (mktime_do): avoid buffer overrun, by

  silently ignoring lesser significant digits.  Required buffer
  length can be computable so you might at first think of
  allocating enough memory space on the fly using alloca().  That
  is a wrong idea because when using alloca there is always risk
  of integer overflow.  A function that accepts outer-process
  resources like this should not blindly trust its inputs.  In
  this particular case we just want to generate miliseconds
  resolution by strtod() so the string in question needs no more
  length than what we originally have.  Ignoring lesser
  significant digits should suffice I believe.




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+Fri May  6 15:01:11 2011  URABE Shyouhei  <shyouhei@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* ext/syck/rubyext.c (mktime_do): avoid buffer overrun, by
+	  silently ignoring lesser significant digits.  Required buffer
+	  length can be computable so you might at first think of
+	  allocating enough memory space on the fly using alloca().  That
+	  is a wrong idea because when using alloca there is always risk
+	  of integer overflow.  A function that accepts outer-process
+	  resources like this should not blindly trust its inputs.  In
+	  this particular case we just want to generate miliseconds
+	  resolution by strtod() so the string in question needs no more
+	  length than what we originally have.  Ignoring lesser
+	  significant digits should suffice I believe.
+
 Fri May  6 14:25:53 2011  Tinco Andringa <mail@tinco.nl>
 
 	* ext/syck/rubyext.c (mktime_do): YAML.load time correctly parse