Bug#361218: [ xdvi-Bugs-1466262 ] segfaults while trying to print moreverb.dvi, read from fifo
tags 361218 fixed-upstream
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> Bugs item #1466262, was opened at 2006-04-07 13:06
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> Category: file handling
> Group: incorrect behaviour
>>Status: Closed
>>Resolution: Fixed
> Priority: 5
> Private: No
> Submitted By: Frank K.�ster (kuesterei)
> Assigned to: Stefan Ulrich (stefanulrich)
> Summary: segfaults while trying to print moreverb.dvi, read from fifo
>
> Initial Comment:
> see http://bugs.debian.org/361218
>
> If xdvi is invoked to read from a file descriptor in
> /dev/fd/, it segfaults while trying to print. For
> testing,
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-tex/tetex-bin/trunk/debian/xdvi-pl?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
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>
> this is the Perl script we use to uncompress gzipped
> files on-the fly into a FIFO and open xdvi on it.
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>>Comment By: Stefan Ulrich (stefanulrich)
> Date: 2007-07-15 23:14
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> Fixed in 22.84.13-CVS16; reason was memory corruption by silently assuming
> file had .dvi extension, which the FIFO didn't have. Used new function
> get_extension() to prevent this.
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> Comment By: Stefan Ulrich (stefanulrich)
> Date: 2006-04-07 22:04
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> Thanks, I can reproduce this. Investigating ...
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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