Rastislav Rihak writes:
> >Description:
> There is a bug (or undocumented feature?) in libmysqlclient - if
> function "strend()" is defined in client code, client will fail
> to connect to database with "MySQL client run out of memory"
> message.
>
> >How-To-Repeat:
>
> #include <mysql/mysql.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> void strend(){} /* Little nifty bug :-) */
>
> int main()
> {
> MYSQL mysql;
>
> if (mysql_init(&mysql)==NULL) return 1;
> if (!mysql_real_connect(&mysql,"localhost","root","","mysql",0,NULL,0)) {
> fprintf(stderr, "Failed to connect: %s\n",mysql_error(&mysql));
> return 2;
> }
> return 0;
> }
>
> >Fix:
> Don't know, maybe wrong external declaration...
>
> >Submitter-Id: <submitter ID>
> >Originator: Rastislav Rihak
> >Organization:
> LoneStar Software <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >MySQL support: none
> >Synopsis: strend() problem in mysqlclient API
> >Severity: non-critical
> >Priority: low
> >Category: mysql
> >Class: sw-bug
> >Release: mysql-3.23.33 (Source distribution)
>
> >Environment:
> Slackware Linux 7.1, AMD Duron 750MHz 128MB RAM
> System: Linux agnetha 2.2.16 #5 Ut jan 2 20:14:03 CET 2001 i686 unknown
> Architecture: i686
>
> Some paths: /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake /usr/bin/gcc
> /usr/bin/cc
> GCC: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-slackware-linux/egcs-
> 2.91.66/specs
> gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
> Compilation info: CC='gcc' CFLAGS='' CXX='c++' CXXFLAGS='' LDFLAGS=''
> LIBC:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 16 2000 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-
> 2.1.2.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1008844 Sep 10 1999
> /lib/libc-2.1.2.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20019674 Sep 16 1999
> /usr/lib/libc.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178 Sep 16 1999
> /usr/lib/libc.so Configure command: ./configure --with-debug Perl: This is
> perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-linux
>
HI!
The above is expected behaviour as strend() is one of internal MySQL
functions with a very heavy use. So, what happens, instead of
returning the pointer to the end of string, nothing is returned.
Regards,
Sinisa
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