Instead of stripping space characters past the beginning of the line and overflowing a buffer, stop at the beginning of the line (mimicking the corresponding fix in remote-fd). The argument to isspace does not need to be cast explicitly because git isspace takes care of that already. Noticed-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/remote-ext.c | 8 ++++---- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/remote-ext.c b/builtin/remote-ext.c index 1f77317..ea71977 100644 --- a/builtin/remote-ext.c +++ b/builtin/remote-ext.c @@ -212,16 +212,16 @@ static int command_loop(const char *child) char buffer[MAXCOMMAND]; while (1) { - size_t length; + size_t i; if (!fgets(buffer, MAXCOMMAND - 1, stdin)) { if (ferror(stdin)) die("Comammand input error"); exit(0); } /* Strip end of line characters. */ - length = strlen(buffer); - while (isspace((unsigned char)buffer[length - 1])) - buffer[--length] = 0; + i = strlen(buffer); + while (i > 0 && isspace(buffer[i - 1])) + buffer[--i] = 0; if (!strcmp(buffer, "capabilities")) { printf("*connect\n\n"); -- 1.7.4.rc2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html