From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> In 39a98e9b68b8 (mingw: get pw_name in UTF-8 format, 2019-06-27), this developer missed the fact that the `GetUserNameW()` function takes the number of characters as `len` parameter, not the number of bytes. Reported-by: Beat Bolli <dev+git@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- compat/mingw.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c index b8a62bf914..a0eb695653 100644 --- a/compat/mingw.c +++ b/compat/mingw.c @@ -1952,7 +1952,7 @@ struct passwd *getpwuid(int uid) if (initialized) return p; - len = sizeof(buf); + len = ARRAY_SIZE(buf); if (!GetUserNameW(buf, &len)) { initialized = 1; return NULL; -- gitgitgadget