bin/104845: Build error on contrib/file/magic

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR bin/104845; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: Ryoji Kanai <kanai at big.or.jp>
Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>, freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/104845: Build error on contrib/file/magic
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:42:58 -0400

 On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 12:58:45PM -0700, Ryoji Kanai wrote:
 > 
 > At Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:38:42 -0400,
 > Kris Kennaway wrote:
 > 
 > > > That's it. You should get a Segmentation fault. Is this only me?
 > > 
 > > Maybe.  There was a segfault fix to this file 4 months ago, can you
 > > please confirm that you have it?
 > 
 > My fix is another problem. The problem exists even in the latest code.
 > 
 > > > >Fix:
 > > > I GDBed the magic program and found this. I'm not sure this is the right way to fix it.
 > > 
 > > You could also check with the authors.
 > 
 > I talked with Christos Zoulas (maintainer). He said this was a bug
 > and he fixed it. I hope new version will be released soon. Anyway, you
 > can close this pr and set a "should update contrib/file to the next
 > version" flag.
 
 Interesting, I wonder why others aren't seeing it.  Do you have
 nonstandard MALLOC_OPTIONS (or /etc/malloc.conf)?
 
 If Christos has imported the fix, we can also do a vendor import of
 just your patch into FreeBSD since it won't cause a divergence from
 vendor code.
 
 Kris