[ic] vlink MINIVEND_SOCKET patch

[Jon Jensen]

On Wed, 6 May 2020, Peter wrote:

> compile_link is documented to allow the path to the socket in vlink to 
> be overridden with the MINIVEND_SOCKET environment variable, but this 
> functionality is non-existent.  Since at the moment I'm attempting to 
> package Interchange 5.12.0 for CentOS 8 I'm thinking that this 
> functionality would be usefull so that I can simply build vlink for the 
> default socket location and if someone wants to change it they can just 
> set MINIVEND_SOCKET rather than having to re-compile vlink with the new 
> location.  I've come up with the following patch which should do that (I 
> haven't tested it yet), and also eliminates a vulnerable strcpy in the 
> process:

Looks good to me (also not testing, just reading).

We should probably make the same change in vlink.pl, I guess.

Jon



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