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Re: [PATCH] merge_blobs: use strbuf instead of manually-sized mmfile_t

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SFStefan Frühwirth <stefan.fruehwirth@uni-graz.at>
Date
Feb 19, 2016, 12:48 UTC
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On 2016-02-16 at 22:27 Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Three, I know the existence of the program is not more than "we
> could do something like this" illustration by Linus, and its output
> is in no way _designed_ to be so.  We know today that it does not do

Well, then it is just really sad that the manpage doesn't say so. This should be corrected immediately in order to prevent someone to build more (e.g.) libraries on top of it.

Stefan
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Message 10 of 10 in “malloc memory corruption on merge-tree with leading newline”
  1. Stefan FrühwirthFeb 15, 2016
  2. Stefan FrühwirthFeb 15, 2016
  3. merge_blobs: use strbuf instead of manually-sized mmfile_tJeff King, Feb 16, 2016
  4. Eric SunshineFeb 16, 2016
  5. Jeff KingFeb 16, 2016
  6. Stefan FrühwirthFeb 16, 2016
  7. Jeff KingFeb 16, 2016
  8. Stefan FrühwirthFeb 19, 2016
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2016
  10. Stefan FrühwirthFeb 19, 2016

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