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

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:43:37AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 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@]
> 
> 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

The print/gv port has patch-ad to work around another rman bug.  This
bug is only exposed by malloc debugging.

Kris
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