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main: debug build: Avoid buffer over-read and simplify (#6507)

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In theory, if `/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern` is 1024 or more bytes, the
null character terminating the buffer can be overwritten.

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@ -551,30 +551,29 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
if (is_debug_build()) {
struct rlimit limit = {RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY};
setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, &limit);
LOG("CORE DUMPS: You are running a development version of i3, so coredumps were automatically enabled (ulimit -c unlimited).\n");
#ifdef __linux__
/* The following code is helpful, but not required. We thus don’t pay
* much attention to error handling, non-linux or other edge cases. */
LOG("CORE DUMPS: You are running a development version of i3, so coredumps were automatically enabled (ulimit -c unlimited).\n");
size_t cwd_size = 1024;
char *cwd = smalloc(cwd_size);
char *cwd_ret;
while ((cwd_ret = getcwd(cwd, cwd_size)) == NULL && errno == ERANGE) {
cwd_size = cwd_size * 2;
cwd = srealloc(cwd, cwd_size);
}
if (cwd_ret != NULL) {
char *cwd = getcwd(NULL, 0);
if (cwd != NULL) {
LOG("CORE DUMPS: Your current working directory is \"%s\".\n", cwd);
free(cwd);
}
const size_t buffer_size = 1024;
char *buffer = scalloc(buffer_size, sizeof(char));
int patternfd;
if ((patternfd = open("/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern", O_RDONLY)) >= 0) {
memset(cwd, '\0', cwd_size);
if (read(patternfd, cwd, cwd_size) > 0) {
/* a trailing newline is included in cwd */
LOG("CORE DUMPS: Your core_pattern is: %s", cwd);
if (read(patternfd, buffer, buffer_size - 1) > 0) {
/* a trailing newline is included in buffer */
LOG("CORE DUMPS: Your core_pattern is: %s", buffer);
}
close(patternfd);
}
free(cwd);
free(buffer);
#endif
}
LOG("i3 %s starting\n", i3_version);