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Re: [PATCH] cygcheck bug when listing services


On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:41:24PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> >[snip]
> >> That needs a comment in the code.
> >
> >Fair enough:
> >[snip]
> >+      /* Add two nulls to avoid confusing strtok() when the trailing separator
> >+         is missing */
>
> How about a testcase which shows that the MSVCRT strtok needs two
> trailing NUL bytes to work around problems when there is no trailing
> separator?  I would find that much more interesting than a comment which
> simply asserts that behavior.

Fair enough.  The double-null issue was a red herring, apparently -- a
simple recompile fixed the problem.  In fact, the cygcheck from the latest
snapshot doesn't exhibit this behavior.  Patch withdrawn.
	Igor
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