mutt/1536: mutt/1536: Segment fault with long lines when LANG=*.UTF-8
The following reply was made to PR mutt/1536; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Brendan Cully <brendan@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc:
Subject: mutt/1536: Segment fault with long lines when LANG=*.UTF-8
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:20:12 -0700
On Tuesday, 02 August 2005 at 07:05, Anders Helmersson wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR mutt/1536; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Anders Helmersson <anders.helmersson.utsikt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: mutt/1536: Segment fault with long lines when LANG=*.UTF-8
> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 06:24:52 +0200
>
> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 04:31:44 +0200, Brendan Cully wrote:
> > This seems to have been a libc bug. Can you reproduce with a current
> version?
>
> Yes, the segfault still appears with 1.5.9i (2005-03-13).
>
> The debian version (1.5.9-2) with the patch
> patch.helmersson.incomplete-mbyte.2 does not segfault.
The patch seems reasonable to me, but I'm not too conversant in this
multibyte stuff. Can anyone with more authority comment on why it
shouldn't be committed?