Re: [Nano-devel] [patch] fix segfault when finding a lock file with a long name

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016, at 10:59, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Nano will go astray or segfault when it finds a lock file for a file
> with a very long name -- depending on the locale, more than about 70
> characters long.  To reproduce, run the following:
> 
>     nano qqqqqq...   (type 128 q's)
> 
> Then, in another terminal, do 'killall nano'.  Then run the same
> 'nano qqqqqq...' again.  It will find the lockfile, will want to ask
> a question, will write outside of the allocated space, and will crash.
> 
> Bug was reported by Aapo Rantalainen in
>     https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47511.
> 
> Attached patch fixes this.

Patch was applied to git, fb9585e.

Benno

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