> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: psmith
> Subject: Changed information for PR make/1860
Synopsis: In an obscure case make writes random memory to STDOUT
State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: psmith
State-Changed-When: Wed Aug 16 17:57:31 EDT 2000
State-Changed-Why:
The fix suggested in the bug report doesn't fix all aspects
of the problem; it only fixes the situation where the sub-
shell doesn't print anything to stdout before exiting with
error 127. If you use this makefile:
DEBUG := $(shell echo there; exit 127)
all: ; echo hi
It will still potentially print random memory.
The patch below fixes all aspects of the problem, and will
be included in the next release of GNU make.
--- function.c 2000/06/20 05:48:40 1.60
+++ function.c 2000/08/16 21:57:02
@@ -1481,6 +1481,7 @@
/* This most likely means that the execvp failed,
so we should just write out the error message
that came in over the pipe from the child. */
+ buffer[i] = '\0';
fputs (buffer, stderr);
fflush (stderr);
}
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