doubled words

Mike Stump mikestump@comcast.net
Sun Apr 10 18:21:00 GMT 2011


On Apr 10, 2011, at 4:54 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I would be inclined to prepare a patch if I thought it would
> be applied (promptly?), but I submitted a clear/simple fix for
> an obvious double-free bug (albeit only in a test case) a month ago:
> 
> 	http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/85973/
> 	avoid memory overrun in a test leading to potential double-free
> 	* testsuite/test-expandargv.c (writeout_test): Fix off-by-one error:
> 	i.e., do copy the trailing NUL byte.
> 
> AFAIK, it hasn't been applied.  If a "real" bug has such low priority,
> this is not a good time to submit a clean-up change.

So, my recommendation would be to treat each patch by itself.  I know how you feel.  I've applied it as it was previous approved.



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