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Re: Bug#120311: apt-cache segfaults on malformed status-file



On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Branden Robinson wrote:

> Culus said "MMap *Map = 0;" was the right fix.
> 
> It isn't.

Er, doesn't all of what you've shown here prove it is the right fix
since it isn't segfaulting?

The original segfault was a simply a delete of an uninitialized pointer,
initing it to 0 makes it safe since delete 0 is a nop.

Jason



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