segfaults while trying to print moreverb.dvi, read from fifo

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#295 segfaults while trying to print moreverb.dvi, read from fifo

Milestone: incorrect behaviour

Status: closed-fixed

Owner: Stefan Ulrich

Labels: file handling (46)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2007-07-15

Created: 2006-04-07

Creator: Frank Küster

Private: No

see http://bugs.debian.org/361218

If xdvi is invoked to read from a file descriptor in
/dev/fd/, it segfaults while trying to print. For
testing,
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-tex/tetex-bin/trunk/debian/xdvi-pl?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

this is the Perl script we use to uncompress gzipped
files on-the fly into a FIFO and open xdvi on it.

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Stefan Ulrich - 2006-04-07

labels: --> file handling

milestone: --> incorrect behaviour

assigned_to: nobody --> stefanulrich
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Stefan Ulrich - 2006-04-07

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Thanks, I can reproduce this. Investigating ...

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Stefan Ulrich - 2007-07-15

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Fixed in 22.84.13-CVS16; reason was memory corruption by silently assuming file had .dvi extension, which the FIFO didn't have. Used new function get_extension() to prevent this.

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Stefan Ulrich - 2007-07-15

status: open --> closed-fixed
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