Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: weird abortions

[Thorsten Glaser]

Thomas Dickey dixit:

> The one I have in mind was this:
>
> * replace fixed-buffer Style_className[] with a dynamically-allocated buffer,
>  needed for large pages which lack correctly-nested tags, e.g.,
>    http://www.aspas-nature.org/petitions/petition2.html
>  (reported by Frederic L W Meunier) -TD
>
> The problem was that a fixed-buffer (under src) was used for storing a stack 
> of
> names.  When it ran past the end of the buffer, adjacent data was overwritten,
> causing a secondary problem down in the WWW logic, and finally a core dump.

Hm, strlcpy and truncation detection, or so?

What about having a buffer which grows as needed, but there is always
exactly one allocated?

> Narrowing the problem down to see where the first problem can be observed is
> the first step.  The cause may be far removed from the symptom - which is why
> it's nice to have a case that can be repeated (in debugging, I repeat those
> cases many times ;-)

Sure, but I can't reproduce it.

The last one happened when going from slashdot (light layout) to
OSnews (in a slashbox), but there were at several other pages too,
and never twice at the same, not even if reproducing the "surfing"
behaviour.

bye,
//mirabile