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Re: svndumpfilter 1.4.4 (VC8 build) crash

From: Daniel Rall <dlr_at_collab.net>
Date: 2007-06-21 22:56:14 CEST

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Jens Peters wrote:

> Daniel Rall wrote:
> >Your stack trace shows write_prop_to_stringbuf() choking. Do you have
> >any interesting characters in your log messages? (It'd help to have
> >the dump file to look at.)
> >
>
> Hello Daniel,
>
> Thank you for asking. There aren't any special chars in the props and I can
> reproduce this crash with other dumpfiles as well. I do however took a look
> at the trunk development of svndumpfilter and got curios about rev 23494.
>
> [svndumpfilter: don't use '%n' in printf strings.
>
> In VS2005, Microsoft has deprecated the use of %n as 'inherently
> insecure' and turning it back on requires a special function call.
>
> Suggested by: djh
> Jonathan Gilbert <o2w9gs702@sneakemail.com>
>
> * subversion/svndumpfilter/main.c
> (write_prop_to_stringbuf, output_revision, output_node): Use the return
> value of sprintf() to determine how many characters were written, rather
> than using '%n' at the end of the string.]
>
> After applying this revision to 1.4.4 everything works as expected with
> svndumpfilter build against libintl 0.14.6 VC8 build. So I would like to
> ask if rev23494 can be backported to 1.4.x.

So nominated, Jens.

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