Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [bug] Inventory does not fail gracefully when high-bit file names are encountered.

[Bug Goo]

Created as bug 107

On Wed May 12 16:12:56 2004, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> $ tla inventory > /dev/null
> /home/abentley/tla-1.2/src/tla/libarch/invent.c:901:botched invariant
>      *a < *b
> PANIC: exiting on botched invariant
>
> This happens because there is a file with high-bit characters in its 
> filename in the tree.
>
> These filenames are compared as possibly-signed character arrays (e.g. 
> negative) in right_order_for_recursion, but have been sorted as though 
> they were unsigned elsewhere, leading to the botched invariant.
> Aaron