Marcus, we all do mistakes (I sure do my share :-)). Still, I'm
grateful for your donation.
I'm resolving this ticket.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mon Jun 28 22:45:24 2004]:
> Richard
>
> I am sorry. Sometimes I get so involved in an application that I fail
to
> see the obvious. In this case I was compiling with the wrong C
libraries.
> I feel stupid and to make myself feel better I sent you a small
donation.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Marcus Carey
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 6:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [openssl.org #897] Bug Report -- PEM_read and PEM_write
> functions cause application errors.
>
>
> >
> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 17 Jun 2004
> 23:30:44 -0700, Lev Walkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >
> > vlm> Marcus Carey via RT wrote:
> > vlm> > Windows 2000
> > vlm> > MS VC++ .NET
> > vlm> > OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004
> > vlm> >
> > vlm> >
> > vlm> > FILE *fp;
> > vlm> > X509 *cert;
> > vlm> >
> > vlm> >
> > vlm> > fp = fopen("SomefFile","r");
> > vlm> > cert = PEM_read_X509(fp,NULL,NULL,NULL);
> > vlm> > fclose(fp);
> > vlm> >
> > vlm> >
> > vlm> > I have narrowed it down to the BIO_gets() function.
> > vlm> >
> > vlm> > int BIO_get(BIO *b, char *in, int inl)
> > vlm> > {
> > vlm> > i=b->method->bgets(b,in,inl); /* This causes an
application
> error - "The memory could not be writting" */
> > vlm> >
> > vlm> > return(i);
> > vlm> > }
> > vlm> >
> > vlm> >
> > vlm> > This error also occures with PEM_write functions.
> > vlm>
> > vlm>
> > vlm> Please use the API correctly:
> > vlm>
> > vlm> FILE *fp = fopen(...);
> > vlm> X509 *cert = NULL; /* Do not forget NULL!!! */
> > vlm>
> > vlm> cert = PEM_read_X509(fp, &cert, NULL, NULL);
> >
> > Uhmm, I was under the impression that if PEM_read_X509() and friends
> > got a NULL as a second argument, it would create a X509 to contain
the
> > information...
> >
> > I suspect this is a problem on Windows, because I just tried the
above
> > test program (with NULL as second argument to PEM_read_X509()) on
> > Linux, and it worked like a charm (I checked with gdb that I really
> > did get a value back, and that it contained sensible data).
> >
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