From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:06:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] index-pack: allocate NUL byte at the buffer end
Message-ID: <7vablix7ch.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <12044064822655-git-send-email-mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>

Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>
> ---
> Other parts of git add a NUL to buffers as safty measure, so why not index-pack/
> unpack-objects too?

Perhaps because nobody other than index-pack itself accesses it as if it
is a NUL terminated buffer?