Bug#383487: parsing packages files: Reads from pipe results in corrupt data
reassign 383487 apt
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:00:53PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> This does not exclude the possibility that the problem is in libapt.
> Looking at the differences in tagfile.cc in apt, there are
> buffering/mmap changes made to the reading code, which is IMHO highly
> suspicious of the exhibited buggy behaviour.
Further tests showed that:
- 0.6.45exp1 (which lists: apt-pkg/tagfile.cc: support not-mmapable
files again) does not fix this issue
- #275852 is not the same issue, and indeed, the patch does not resolve
this issue.
--Jeroen
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