Re: Berkeley DB verbose error messages

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:58:26PM +0200, Sander Striker wrote:
>...
> +/* Note that we 'abuse' the error prefix as a userdata field.
> + The documentation suggests that this is safe:
> +
> + http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/api_c/env_set_errpfx.html

Hmm? That says it doesn't try to copy the thing, but it doesn't say
anything about *not* treating it as a char*. IOW, as far as we know, it
might use it in some way and sticking an arbitrary pointer in there could
be badness.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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