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Date:      Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:25:11 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD developers <hackers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: memchr() strangeness
Message-ID:  <20090904172511.GI21946@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <4AA14437.4050507@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4AA14437.4050507@FreeBSD.org>

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Moved to -hackers.

Gabor, can you please make a smaller program to exhibit this behavior?
(not just the error line)

I will be glad to help out.

-Alfred

* Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> [090904 10:04] wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> having returned from vacation, I'm trying to track down the (hopefully) 
> last critical bug in BSDL grep I worked on the last summer. The binary 
> file detection is implemented as follows:
> f->binary = memchr(binbuf, (filebehave != FILE_GZIP) ? '\0' : '\200', i 
> - 1) != NULL;
> 
> There's some strange with this. In my normal environment it works fine:
> server# echo foobar | ./grep -v '^ *+'
> foobar
> 
> But in a chroot environment the binary detection is broken:
> # echo foobar | grep -v '^ *+'
> foobar
> Binary file (standard input) matches
> 
> I don't know where things go bad. I've tried to print out the content of 
> the buffer and the buffer length and they are the same but somehow in 
> the chrooted environment this sets f->binary to true.
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -- 
> Gabor Kovesdan
> FreeBSD Volunteer
> 
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> 
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-- 
- Alfred Perlstein
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