Fix for rman [was: Re: [-CURRENT tinderbox] ...]

From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel_at_xcllnt.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:43:37 -0700
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:16:01PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > 
> > malloc, you say? I have build failures in XFree4-clients because
> > rman coredumps and I have a backtrace full of free() frames...
> > 
> > Coincidence?
> 
> Some of the XFree86 utilities contain malloc bugs..rman in particular
> has been dumping core on certain ports for a couple of years.  I tried
> to track it down once but couldn't find it.

[cc anholt_at_]

The attached patch fixes rman. The faulting case is "\\\0". The '\0'
was handled in the default case for escaped characters, which also
incremented the pointer p beyond the terminating '\0'. 

Oh: this goes to devel/imake-4 of course.

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel_at_xcllnt.net

Received on Tue Jul 15 2003 - 22:43:39 UTC

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