Re: [Refdb-users] to quote or not to quote (Curious refdbc -C "getref ..." behaviour)

[Marc H. <mar...@fr...>]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, David Nebauer wrote:

> I discovered the -C truncation myself a little while back.  I wrote a


> Any idea why the truncation occurs?

It's easy to find out if you know a bit of C and have a look at the
code near my patch: only the first 31 characters of the -C argument
are considered, which is more than enough to hold every potential -C
command (see the array "commands" at the beginning of the same
refdbc.c file).

All this is consistent indeed. But when some users "intuitively" do
something bad (a quoted thus long -C argument), and when the program
does not report any error for that, things can go very wrong.