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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
December 12, 2005 13:14
Subject:
Re: sprintf patches
Message ID:
20051212211400.GU616@plum.flirble.org
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:47:06PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:10:39AM -0500, Andrew Dougherty wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:07:01PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > 
> > > All together now:
> > > 
> > >    There was an old man called Michael Finnegan,
> > >    He grew whiskers on his chinnigan.
> > >    The wind came out and blew them inigan,
> > >    Poor old Michael Finnegan... begin again.
> 
>    There was an old man named Michael Finnegan
>    He went fishing with a pinnegan
>    Caught a fish and dropped it in again
>    Poor old Michael Finnegan... begin again.

   There was an old man named Michael Finnegan,
   Climbed a tree and barked his shin-egan,
   Took off several yards of skin-egan,
   Poor old Michael Finnegan, begin again.

> Thanks. However, I think we're going to get questions asked if we don't also
> patch the other SEGV variants recently detected. So here goes with the
> winning formula of context diffs with balanced context for
> 26282 26283 26322 26331 26333
> 
> (IIRC - it's the previous patch plus 26322 26331 26333)
> 
> Hopefully these are the final versions.

Failed. Steve Hay's smoke reveals that change 26283 doesn't work on windows,
because memory_wrap slipped into globvar.sym as part of Jarkko's first Symbian
patch.

The changes are integrated to maint, but what's as interesting is whether the
patches apply cleanly to release source tarballs on various operating systems
with various versions of patch.

Nicholas Clark


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