PATCH 21.5 Here is how I would like to fix the dangerous strcpy we discussed recently on xemacs-beta. The solution is to make the target area precisely the right size to hold the copied string. Is there seriously no Xlib function whatsoever to tell you if the server is local or remote? Really? src/ChangeLog addition: 2006-07-07 Jerry James <james(a)xemacs.org&gt; * sound.c (init_native_sound): Make the target of a strcpy be exactly the right size to hold the copied string. xemacs-21.5 source patch: Diff command: cvs -q diff -uN Files affected: src/sound.c Index: src/sound.c =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/src/sound.c,v retrieving revision 1.26 diff -d -u -r1.26 sound.c --- src/sound.c 2006/03/27 17:40:59 1.26 +++ src/sound.c 2006/07/07 20:44:16 ＠＠ -640,7 +640,7 ＠＠ DEVICE_ON_CONSOLE_P (d) = 0; else { - Extbyte hn [255]; + Extbyte *hn = alloca_array (Extbyte, strlen (h->h_name) + 1); struct hostent *l; strcpy (hn, h->h_name); l = gethostbyname (localname); -- Jerry James, Assistant Professor james(a)xemacs.org Computer Science Department http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/ Utah State University