On 18 Feb 2006, at 22:30, Alex Perez wrote:
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
On 18 Feb 2006, at 13:47, Chris Vetter wrote:
Hi,
this is to let you know that the latest changes (made yesterday,
Friday) are breaking GNUMail.
I updated SVN, recompiled the whole enchilada, quit and restarted
GNUMail -- which almost immediately core dumped.
Fixed ... thanks ... It didn't show up in my tests, but GNUMail
triggered it every time so it was very easy to find.
What was the problem?
Cleanup after a failed creation of a file attributes dictionary was
dereferencing a null pointer.
Unfortunately, the testsuite didn't contain a test for creating a
file attributes directory for a non-existent file ... it does now.
I didn't bother checking the GNUMail sourcecode to see why it was
doing it, but probably it was doing an implicit test for the
existence of a file by trying to get it's attributes as a more
efficient alternative to first testing for the files existence and
then getting its attributes.
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