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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?