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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: do not segfault when -f is used
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:34:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD84C2F.5000809@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1255683204-28988-1-git-send-email-kraai@ftbfs.org>

Matt Kraai schrieb:
> "git grep" would segfault if its -f option was used because it would
> try to use an uninitialized strbuf, so initialize the strbuf.

Thanks for noticing and for the patch.

But...

> +test_expect_success 'grep should not segfault with -f' '
> +        test_must_fail git grep -f /dev/null
> +'

there must be a better way to test whether grep -f behaves correctly.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-16 10:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-16  8:53 [PATCH] grep: do not segfault when -f is used Matt Kraai
2009-10-16 10:34 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2009-10-16 13:39   ` Matt Kraai
2009-10-16 13:46     ` Johannes Sixt
2009-10-16 14:13       ` Matt Kraai
2009-10-17  7:44         ` Junio C Hamano

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