Hi, On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Alex Riesen wrote: > > > >> Johannes Schindelin, Thu, Aug 02, 2007 17:38:37 +0200: > >> > >> > On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Alex Riesen wrote: > >> > > >> > >@@ -209,7 +209,8 @@ const char *set_work_tree(const char *dir) > >> > > len = strlen(dir); > >> > > if (len > postfix_len && !strcmp(dir + len - postfix_len, > >> > > "/" DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT)) { > >> > >- strncpy(dir_buffer, dir, len - postfix_len); > >> > >+ strncpy(dir_buffer, dir, len - postfix_len); > >> > >+ dir_buffer[len - postfix_len] = '\0'; > >> > > > >> > > /* are we inside the default work tree? */ > >> > > rel = get_relative_cwd(buffer, sizeof(buffer), dir_buffer); > >> > > >> > Darn, darn, darn. strncpy does _not_ NUL terminate. I keep forgetting > >> > that. > >> > > >> > Better use strlcpy()? > >> > >> Of course, but it just should not be needed at all: static supposed to > >> be zeroed. > > > > Certainly. But reality outweighs theory, and so I Ack either your patch > > or replacing it by strlcpy(). > > Static is supposed to be zeroed and also is supposed to retain > the value from the previous call. I am guessing from the change > to make "rel" to non-static that this function is called twice > perhaps? Apparently (but I would feel safer with strlcpy() anyway). git-read-tree is the first and only offender which comes up in the test suite: -- snipsnap -- [PATCH] read-tree: remove unnecessary call to setup_git_directory() read-tree is already marked with RUN_SETUP in git.c, so there is no need to call setup_git_directory() a second time. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- builtin-read-tree.c | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-read-tree.c b/builtin-read-tree.c index 41f8110..a3b17a3 100644 --- a/builtin-read-tree.c +++ b/builtin-read-tree.c @@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ int cmd_read_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *unused_prefix) memset(&opts, 0, sizeof(opts)); opts.head_idx = -1; - setup_git_directory(); git_config(git_default_config); newfd = hold_locked_index(&lock_file, 1); -- 1.5.3.rc3.121.g7f37 - 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