From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pg_ctl infinite loop and memory leak |
Date: | 2009-09-17 16:55:51 |
Message-ID: | 200909171655.n8HGtq501739@momjian.us |
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Jeff Davis wrote:
> To reproduce:
>
> 1. initdb -D data
> 2. cat /dev/null > data/postgresql.conf
> 3. pg_ctl -w -D data start
>
> I attached a quick patch that seems to do the trick. It appears that
> fgets() will always return non-NULL if the size passed in is 1 (i.e.
> maxlength in the caller is 0).
>
> The patch also changes the same readfile() function in initdb.c. I
> assume it's not a practical problem there, but it should be fixed.
>
> Thanks to Corry Haines (chaines at truviso dot com) for reporting the
> problem.
I thought I knew the libc API pretty well, but I learned something new
here. :-)
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