Bug 73425

Summary: g_string_printf loses data on embeded '\0' in certain cases
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: James Antill <james.antill>
Component: glib2Assignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
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Version: 7.3Keywords: FutureFeature
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Description James Antill 2002-09-04 15:53:29 UTC 
Description of Problem:

 If you call g_mem_set_vtable() then on a system with vasprintf() you will lose
data if you call g_string_printf() with a '\0' byte in the data.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glib2-2.0.1-2

How Reproducible:
 Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See attached program.
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Actual Results:
 attached source dies.

Expected Results:
 should exit cleanly.

Additional Information:
 I've also attached a patch to fix the problem.
Comment 1 James Antill 2002-09-04 15:54:21 UTC 
Created attachment 74884 [details]
Source of program to show bug.
Comment 2 James Antill 2002-09-04 15:55:57 UTC 
Created attachment 74885 [details]
Proposed patch.
Comment 3 Owen Taylor 2002-09-04 16:31:27 UTC 
Filed upstream as:

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92492
Comment 4 Owen Taylor 2002-11-01 01:34:49 UTC 
Not going to fix this in advance of upstream.