Re: Huh .. mail_list_magic[0].pattern gets written to the summary file!

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 22:51 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 22:28 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:

> > I didn't alter the code that writes the summary file. So I'm confident
> > that this bug also happens for people who aren't using the mmap patches
> > yet.

Yes I did. And the very very small change I did caused this
behaviour ;-).

len--;

if (len != 0)
    fwrite (str, len, 1, out);

What if len is -1 and str is ""? That is what happened ;-)

I closed the bugreport. You can ignore this thread. It was my own fault.

> Somebody definitely needs to explain me how he managed to write
> mail_list_magic[0].pattern into the summary file of some of my
> mailing> lists ;-)!

Well ;-). fwrite ("", -1, 1, out)


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