[solved?] Re: vi segfaults (bb 1.8.2)

Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com
Mon Dec 10 14:13:54 UTC 2007


On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Denys Vlasenko wrote:

> _Excellent_ analysis!

Thanks :)

> You nailed it down.

Right.

> It's simpler than that. Programs should not make assumptions that
> BUFSIZ is bigger than some fixed number. (Well, probably you can
> be sure that it is bigger than, say, 63 :) ).
>
> Our vi was making that bad assumption. Please try attached patch.

Looks good.

Maybe a patch here:

  http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.2/

would be nice.


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian



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