ITUGLIB update

From	"Joachim Schmitz" <nospam.jojo@schmitz-digital.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	ITUGLIB update
Date	2011-12-13 14:17 +0100
Organization	1&1 Internet AG
Message-ID	<jc7j9k$cl4$1@online.de> (permalink)

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Hi folks

With quite some embarassment I have to admit to a rather bad and stupid bug 
in floss-1.1. It has been brought to my attention last Sunday and is fixed 
now, in floss-1.3, but quite a few packages on ITUGLIB had been build using 
that broken libfloss.a.

Background: the floss_read() and floss_write() funktions that are there to 
split read()/write() into chunks of at most SSIZE_MAX (53248) bytes reported 
a wrong byte count (the last byte count rather the grand total).
So every program using these calls that reads/writes files larger than 53248 
bytes and checks the return values of the read/write is doomed to fail.
As bad as that sounds, I've been using bash and vim on a more or less daily 
basis and not noticed any problem with them so far, yet they are potentially 
affected (see below), so maybe I was only lucky to not have been biten by 
the bug.

I've rebuilt all the potentially affected packages (list follows), so if you 
downloaded any of them since about 14Feb2011, please load them again now 
(some packages I have just rebuild and replaced on ITUGLIB, some others I 
updated to the latest version)

The list:
floss-1.1-src.tar.gz (left on ITUGLIB for historical reasons) updated to 
floss-1.3!
bash-4.1.11-nse.tar.gz (nsr version to follow)
bash-4.2.20-nse.tar.gz (nsr version to follow)
ncurses-5.7-nse.tar.gz updated to ncurses-5.9
php-5.3.8-nse.tar.gz
readline-6.2-nse.tar.gz updated to readline-6.2.002
samba-3.5.*-nse.tar.gz updated to samba-3.5.12
samba-3.6.*-nse.tar.gz updated to samba-3.6.1
tack-1.07-nse.tar.gz
unzip-6.0-nse.tar.gz
vim-7.2-nse.tar.gz
vim-7.3-nse.tar.gz patchlevel 359 updated to patchlevel 372
wget-1.13.1-nse.tar.gz updated to wget-1.13.4!
zip-3.0-nse.tar.gz
zlib-1.2.5-nse.tar.gz

I'm terribly sorry for the inconvenience caused!

Oh and for those who need the URL to ITUGLIB:
http://ituglib.connect-community.org

-- 
Bye, Jojo

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ITUGLIB update "Joachim Schmitz" <nospam.jojo@schmitz-digital.de> - 2011-12-13 14:17 +0100
  Re: ITUGLIB update "Joachim Schmitz" <nospam.jojo@schmitz-digital.de> - 2011-12-13 15:22 +0100
    Re: ITUGLIB update Kleuske <kleuske@nowhere.net> - 2011-12-14 11:29 +0000
      Re: ITUGLIB update Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-14 13:04 -0800
        Re: ITUGLIB update Kleuske <kleuske@nowhere.net> - 2011-12-15 22:23 +0000

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