Well, i found at least one problem in ns_proxy so far, but it seems
unrelated
to Tcl 8.5 and Alexey's problem.
nsproxy defines the structure Proxy as follows:
typedef struct Proxy {
....
char id[16]; /* Proxy unique string id. */
Proc *procPtr; /* Running child process, if any. */
....
} Proxy;
later, the id is initialized by
sprintf(proxyPtr->id, "%s-proxy-%d", poolPtr->name, poolPtr->nextid++);
The sprintf will cause a problem, if the pool name has more than 16-9 =
7 bytes.
Since pool name is passed in via tcl, and its length is not checked,
wierd things
are likely to happen (the procPtr will be overwritten).
For example, OpenACS does a
set handle [ns_proxy get exec_proxy]
where len(exec_proxy)>7.
The quick fix is to change char id[16] to id[32], but actually, one should
check the length...
Unfortunately, this does not help in the original problem.
-gustaf neumann
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