Re: [PATCH] setup_revisions(): do not access outside argv

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Jeff King wrote:
> Having just fixed a segfault in the GIT_TRACE code caused by a
> non-terminated argv generated by the alias code, I think I would prefer
> that we just consistently do the NULL-termination. You are otherwise
> creating a maintenance pitfall when somebody later passes the value to
> unsuspecting code.

Speaking of that, there is also one piece of code in diff.c that doesn't do
NULL-termination after a readlink() call (which never NULL-terminates).
The current use is 100% fine, though the same maintenance
argument might apply here, too. Wondering why the buffer
is allocated as PATH_MAX +1. Hmm.

Thomas
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