On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:28:27AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:45:03PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > FYI, I cannot reproduce this problem on PowerPC: > > > > [0] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ % perl -we'$a = "a" x 8192; `MANPATH=$a xman`' > > Xman Error: No manual pages found. > > [0] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ % perl -we'$a = "a" x 8193; `MANPATH=$a xman`' > > Xman Error: No manual pages found. > > [0] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ % perl -we'$a = "a" x 8194; `MANPATH=$a xman`' > > [0] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ % uname -a > > Linux redwald 2.4.19-powerpc #1 Mon Sep 9 09:01:43 EDT 2002 ppc unknown > > unknown GNU/Linux > > I can't reproduce it with the recipe above, but that's just because > nothing is printing the error message: it does still segfault. Try this > instead, which reproduces it here on i386 with xbase-clients 4.2.1-5: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ MANPATH=`perl -we'print "a" x 8192'` xman > Xman Error: No manual pages found. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ MANPATH=`perl -we'print "a" x 8193'` xman > Segmentation fault
I'm working on a patch for this. The xman code is riddled with static buffers. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
