[Pan-users] Re: CVS segfaults when mixing in (0/1)'s?

[Duncan]

jef_e posted <address@hidden>, excerpted below,  on
Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:38:11 -0500:

> Running Pan 0.14.90 out of CVS - just redownloaded and rebuilt it tonight
> to confirm. I notice that when I'm selecting a long list of binary files,
> that if there is a (0/1) mixed in and it happens to get highlighted, Pan
> will seg fault when saving the binaries. Anyone else seeing this?
> 
> Didn't see anything in the bug list, but I also didn't see CVS listed
> there.

I don't run CVS, so haven't seen this myself, but someone did report it to
the list perhaps a month ago.  Apparently, there's no check to see if
there's actually an attachment there, to save, before it attempts to save
it.  The result is probably an attempt to access either uninitialized
memory, or memory address 0.

I've seen no hint that CVS is getting close to a beta release.  This is
likely one of several rough edges that would need to be polished up at
least minimally, before such a beta, or in any case, before a "stable
release, if it wasn't caught for the beta.

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