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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 22:38:02 -0500
From: "A. Wilcox" <awilfox@...lielinux.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com, Jeff King <peff@...f.net>,
 Kevin Daudt <me@...e.info>, git@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git 2.14.1: t6500: error during test on musl libc

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On 16/09/17 22:16, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Subject: gc: call fscanf() with %<len>s, not %<len>c, when reading
> hostname
> 
> Earlier in this codepath, we (ab)used "%<len>c" to read the
> hostname recorded in the lockfile into locking_host[HOST_NAME_MAX +
> 1] while substituting <len> with the actual value of
> HOST_NAME_MAX.
> 
> This turns out to be incorrect, as it an instruction to read
> exactly

it -> it is

> the specified number of bytes.  We are trying to read at most that 
> many bytes, we should be using "%<len>s" instead.
> 
> Helped-by: A. Wilcox <awilfox@...lielinux.org> Signed-off-by: Junio
> C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com> --- builtin/gc.c | 2 +- 1 file
> changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/builtin/gc.c b/builtin/gc.c index
> 3c78fcb9b1..bb2d6c1fb2 100644 --- a/builtin/gc.c +++
> b/builtin/gc.c @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ static const char
> *lock_repo_for_gc(int force, pid_t* ret_pid) int should_exit;
> 
> if (!scan_fmt) -			scan_fmt = xstrfmt("%s %%%dc", "%"SCNuMAX,
> HOST_NAME_MAX); +			scan_fmt = xstrfmt("%s %%%ds", "%"SCNuMAX,
> HOST_NAME_MAX); fp = fopen(pidfile_path, "r"); memset(locking_host,
> 0, sizeof(locking_host)); should_exit =
> 

Ack.  This is what I used in my testing; looks great.  Thanks so much
for your time and patience.


Sincerely,
- --arw

- -- 
A. Wilcox (awilfox)
Project Lead, Adélie Linux
http://adelielinux.org
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