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Title:MRU Internal Bug Reports
Moderator:COOKIE::STMARTIN
Created:Wed Sep 20 1995
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:346
Total number of notes:1175

338.0. "OP:MED Dave's unterminated string string problem." by NABETH::alan (Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.) Mon May 05 1997 18:23

Dave is running VMS V6.2 and MRU FT1.2 on a TL812 on an HSJ running V3.1
of HSOF and Excursion V2.1 on my ALpha Nt 4.0 server box. 

   3. There is a string of garbage characters in the the "no source element"
      line when doing a home on a plade with no source element.
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338.1Hint: NUL terminate the strings stupid...NABETH::alanDr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.Mon May 05 1997 18:356
	Repeat after me.  All the world does not zero fill their stack.
	Thou shalt NUL terminate strings before using them or ensure
	that library routine do it for you.

	Since the API has few places to change, it seems easiest to
	do it there...
338.2Not an API problem.COOKIE::MRUMon May 05 1997 18:433
    Hurm...  We do NUL terminate the strings.  Must be somewhere else.
    Probably an argument problem in home.c of the GUI source.  This
    suggests that find and show should also be checked.
338.3Close.NABETH::alanDr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.Thu May 08 1997 16:097
	The author of that particular bit of code failed to include
	all the message arguments.  Had he ever actually looked at
	the particular failure�to see it calling drives by robot
	name and the error message text as the robot name, this
	problem probably wouldn't not have occured.

	This has been fixed in T1.2-7.