Re: [Monotone-devel] popt is now bundled and corrected.

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 12:54:46PM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> I've now bundled popt with monotone.  It was needed, at least for the
> moment, because popt 1.7 (the current version out there) has so serious
> memory allocation and buffer overflow bugs when poptStuffArgs() is
> used.

Rock.

> The restriction of using -@ only once is now lifted, and the test show
> that it works beautifully.  A run with contrib/Notify.pl (it makes
> good use of -@) shows further that the buffer overflows problem with
> leftovers is gone.

Have you checked with valgrind?  It's quite good at these (and was
complaining hugely before).

-- Nathaniel

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