Re: [mtools] [PATCH] Fix for mtype outputting garbage

[Alain Knaff]

begin  Friday 24 October 2003 15:37, Panagiotis Issaris quote:
> Hi,
>
> It turned out that the problem was caused by the lack of initialisation
> of a SimpleFile_t variable in plain_io.c.
>
> The SimpleFileOpen function allocated memory but did not clear it before
> using it. Some fields were initialised, but the swap field sometimes did
> not get initialiased.
>
> Patch attached (diff -ur).
>
> With friendly regards,
> Panagiotis Issaris


Sorry for the slow response.

A fix for the issue is now in today's patch at 
http://mtools.linux.lu/download.html

The fix changes the definition of the "New" macro such that it now
uses calloc (which zeroes out the allocated memory) rather than
malloc, which does not.

Regards,

Alain

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