Hi Alex, my recommendation would be to report this issue to upstream using Oracle Berkeley DB Forum: https://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=271
I could do it for you, but I would be only pinging messages between you and developers (if they respond). Ondrej On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 22:13, Alex Roper <aro...@umich.edu> wrote: > Package: libdb5.1-java > Version: 5.1.25-11 > Severity: important > > The documentation for DatabaseEntry class specifies that whenever a > DatabaseEntry is used as an output parameter, a new buffer will be > allocated to hold the result read from the database, and therefore it is > safe to keep handles to it. > > Currently, (when using a cursor at least), the old buffer is not only > clobbered, it is not cleared first, so if the previous value read is > larger than the current one read, you will get a mixup of the two. > > See attached sample code for demonstration of this: run Setup to > initialize a test btree, then run Good to see what should be read and > Bad to see what is read due to this bug. > > Dear Maintainer, > *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropiate *** > > * What led up to the situation? > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > * What was the outcome of this action? > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > *** End of the template - remove these lines *** > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: wheezy/sid > APT prefers testing-proposed-updates > APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages libdb5.1-java depends on: > ii libc6 2.13-21 > ii libdb5.1 5.1.25-11 > ii multiarch-support 2.13-21 > > Versions of packages libdb5.1-java recommends: > ii libdb5.1-java-gcj 5.1.25-11 > > libdb5.1-java suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-db-devel mailing list > pkg-db-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-db-devel -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
