Jeff Davis wrote: > To reproduce: > > 1. initdb -D data > 2. cat /dev/null > data/postgresql.conf > 3. pg_ctl -w -D data start > > I attached a quick patch that seems to do the trick. It appears that > fgets() will always return non-NULL if the size passed in is 1 (i.e. > maxlength in the caller is 0). > > The patch also changes the same readfile() function in initdb.c. I > assume it's not a practical problem there, but it should be fixed. > > Thanks to Corry Haines (chaines at truviso dot com) for reporting the > problem.
I thought I knew the libc API pretty well, but I learned something new here. :-) -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
