On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:35:16PM +0100, Jesper Eskilson wrote: > >Hi! > >The attached shell-script causes cygpath to malfunction by trying to >convert a long string of z:s using 'cygpath -w'. It begins by trying "z", >then "zz", and so on. > >When trying more than 240 z:s, the result becomes garbled. For example: > >246 >zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz????NTFS > >and at 249 z:s cygpath fails and says "error converting ...". > >Smells like a buffer overrun somewhere.
It's easy to test your olfactory insight by checking the code. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
