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From: "Danny J. Zerkel" <dzerkel@columbus.rr.com>
Subject: Re: bin/9350: nvi incorrectly reads files with very long lines
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The following reply was made to PR bin/9350; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Danny J. Zerkel" <dzerkel@columbus.rr.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, xaa@xaa.iae.nl
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/9350: nvi incorrectly reads files with very long lines
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 00:41:32 -0400

 Mark,
 
 Here's my fix.  Turns out to be a bug in the db library.  When the read
 buffer has to be expanded beyond 65535, the current character pointer
 gets warped back to the beginning of the buffer, since the size indx_t
 is only 16 bits.
 
 I wonder what else this fixes?  :-)
 
 --- /usr/src/lib/libc/db/recno/rec_get.c.orig   Wed Sep 16 00:17:42 1998
 +++ /usr/src/lib/libc/db/recno/rec_get.c        Sun Aug  1 00:34:16 1999
 @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
  {
         DBT data;
         recno_t nrec;
 -       indx_t len;
 +       size_t len;
         size_t sz;
         int bval, ch;
         u_char *p;
 
 -- Danny J. Zerkel
 dzerkel@columbus.rr.com
 


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