On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 10:26, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 09:40, James Curbo wrote:
> > If I run the attached script, I get this crash:
> >
> > james pioneer:~$ perl vfstest.pl
> > Use of uninitialized value in subtraction (-) at vfstest.pl line 26.
> > libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: file gnome-vfs-socket-buffer.c: line 169
> > (gnome_vfs_socket_buffer_read): assertion `buffer != NULL' failed at
> > vfstest.pl line 26.
> > Segmentation fault
>
> The problem is that sf.net doesn't provide the size of the file you
> requested. Thus, $info->{size} is undefined. In cases like that you
> have to take another approach: read a certain amount of bytes per
> iteration, append everything you get to the buffer and stop when you get
> the end-of-file error. The attached patch does that. (The patch also
> does s/\$@/\$result/g -- Gnome2::VFS doesn't croak on error.)
That makes sense, since it's not a static page. Thanks for the error fix
as well, I probably would have caught that had it not been 2am :)
> All that said, Gnome2::VFS should probably not segfault -- I'll look
> into it.
In case you need to know, I have Debian version 2.4.1-4.1 of
libgnomevfs2, and 0.93-1 of Gnome2 (the perl library). If you need
anything else from me, just ask.
>
> Bye,
> -Torsten
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