[Bug-tar] Re: getline() differences FreeBSD / GNU libc

[Christian Weisgerber]

noordsij:

> Dear GNU tar maintainer(s) / fBSD gtar port maintainer(s),

> The problem appears to be a difference in getline() behaviour in the fBSD
> and GNU libc.

> So fBSD libc looks at the value of linecapp, whereas GNU libc looks at the
> value of lineptr, to determine whether to allocate a new buffer or use a
> provided one. In the tar source, linecapp (bufsize) is not initialized,
> lineptr (buf) is.

FWIW, getline() has been fixed in FreeBSD 9-CURRENT but the merge
back to 8.0 was forgotten.

> The fix is to simply initialize bufsize to 0 as well, to make (line
> 1232-1233):
> 
>   char *buf = 0;
>   size_t bufsize = 0;

read_incr_db_01() should have the same fix.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          address@hidden