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Re: [RFC PATCH 2/6] msvc: opendir: allocate enough memory

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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 23, 2010, 17:46 UTC
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On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
>
>> --- a/compat/msvc.c
>> +++ b/compat/msvc.c
>> @@ -5,12 +5,11 @@
>>
>>  DIR *opendir(const char *name)
>>  {
>> -     int len;
>> +     int len = strlen(p->dd_name);
>>       DIR *p;
>
> Does this work?
>

Whoops. It does work for me, but it shouldn't. I guess malloc is over-allocating, and git is only using short paths.

Thanks for catching it.
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Message 10 of 18 in “win32-dirent”
  1. 0/6 win32-direntErik Faye-Lund, Nov 23, 2010
  2. 1/6 msvc: opendir: use xmallocErik Faye-Lund, Nov 23, 2010
  3. Jonathan NiederNov 23, 2010
  4. Erik Faye-LundNov 23, 2010
  5. Erik Faye-LundNov 23, 2010
  6. Jonathan NiederNov 23, 2010
  7. Erik Faye-LundNov 23, 2010
  8. 2/6 msvc: opendir: allocate enough memoryErik Faye-Lund, Nov 23, 2010
  9. Jonathan NiederNov 23, 2010
  10. Erik Faye-LundNov 23, 2010
  11. 3/6 msvc: opendir: do not start the searchErik Faye-Lund, Nov 23, 2010
  12. 4/6 win32: dirent: handle errorsErik Faye-Lund, Nov 23, 2010
  13. 5/6 msvc: opendir: handle paths ending with a slashErik Faye-Lund, Nov 23, 2010
  14. Jonathan NiederNov 23, 2010
  15. Erik Faye-LundNov 23, 2010
  16. 6/6 win32: use our own dirent.hErik Faye-Lund, Nov 23, 2010
  17. Jonathan NiederNov 23, 2010
  18. Erik Faye-LundNov 23, 2010

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