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diff --git a/open_issues/mig_strings.mdwn b/open_issues/mig_strings.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3693fcc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/mig_strings.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_mig]] + +[[!toc]] + + +# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2014-02-21 + + <teythoon> grml... migs support for variable-length c strings is broken :( + <braunr> completely .. + <teythoon> no one told me :p + <braunr> noone dares + <teythoon> to tell me ? + <braunr> or anyone else ;p + <teythoon> ^^ + <teythoon> root@debian:~# pkill mtab + <teythoon> task /hurd/procfs(19) �O� deallocating an invalid port 1049744, + most probably a bug. + <braunr> :) + <teythoon> it's still an improvement >,< + <teythoon> uh the joys... + <teythoon> gnu machs mig_strncpy behaves differently from glibcs + <teythoon> the mach version always 0-terminates the target string, the libc + variant does not + <teythoon> which one should i "fix" ? + <braunr> strncpy should behave like strncpy + <teythoon> not according to the documentation in gnumach... + <braunr> people who know it expect it not to always null terminate + <braunr> you can either fix mig_strncpy, or call it mig_strlcpy |