[PD] Bug in Pool?

Luke Iannini (pd) lukexipd at gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 08:27:21 CEST 2007


Hi Thomas,Don't suppose you ever figured this out?
Cheers
Luke

On 5/17/07, Luke Iannini (pd) <lukexipd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Great!  Hope it is not too painful : )
> Thanks!
> Luke
> On 5/9/07, Thomas Grill <gr at grrrr.org> wrote:
> > Hi Luke,
> > thanks for the report.
> > It's a typical buffer overrun (caused by a loooong line of data),
> > making quick-and-dirty code choke.
> > I hope to fix it shortly, please stand by!
> > greetings, Thomas
> >
> > Am 09.05.2007 um 04:24 schrieb Luke Iannini (pd):
> >
> > > Hi Thomas (and list),
> > > I have run into what appears to be a limitation with [pool], namely
> > > that it crashes with something around ~780 characters loaded from a
> > > file as values in a key.
> > >
> > > I ran into this loading a particularly long list in Memento.  I've
> > > attached a patch and a file from which to load to experience the
> > > crash.  The file is just a little over the character count needed to
> > > crash it (it seems to be between 780 and 800?).  It does not seem to
> > > be a function of the number of elements in the list, but rather the
> > > length of the text in those elements.  Shorten a few of the values in
> > > the list and it loads right up.
> > >
> > > I'm also pretty sure this is a per-key limitation, as memento's lddir
> > > first loads files into /tmp before copying them into the proper key.
> > > I've used that with a file that was just under the crashing length and
> > > that worked fine (loaded into two keys).
> > >
> > > I have tested this on both my PPC Mac and my Intel Mac; maybe others
> > > can check it out too?
> > >
> > > (also to clarify, the problem occurs when loading data from a file;
> > > data of any length (that I've tried) makes it into the pool without
> > > issue, and saves without issue)
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Luke
> > > <PoolCrash.pd>
> > > <CoscNearlyAll>
> >
> > Thomas Grill
> > http://grrrr.org
> >
> >
> >
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