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From: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-mailinfo may corrupt patch headers on attached files
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:39:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080707133945.GB23190@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v1w269sp9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 10:19:46PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The point you inserted strlen() above, however, is one of the places that
> line[] has patch text and can have NUL in it, so strlen() there would
> break the earlier fix.
> 
> Here is the minimum replacement patch, still not handling embedded NULs
> anywhere in the structural part of the message, that should work.  Sane
> MUAs should quote embedded NULs in the original contents with QP or BASE64
> to protect them from handle_boundary() and other functions, and after
> decoding, these embedded NULs will be kept by decode_transfer_encoding(),
> so I think this would work Ok in practice.
> 
> I tested this with both Linus's test message and it does not break t5100.

Good thing for test cases. :-)  Thanks for the explanation.

ACK

Cheers,
Don

      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-07 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-06 17:47 'git am' breakage with MIME decoding Linus Torvalds
2008-07-06 21:21 ` [PATCH] git-mailinfo may corrupt patch headers on attached files Don Zickus
2008-07-06 21:52   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-06 22:13   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-07  0:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-07  5:19   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-07 13:39     ` Don Zickus [this message]

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