On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 11:53 +0200, Lars Kneschke wrote: > Aaron Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >Now I wonder if we should have a README.solaris and just specify that we > >require lib/[EMAIL PROTECTED] or if we should be checking for null char *'s > >before > >every trace call? > > > >I'm going to see if I can get a fix into upstream Gnulib, since Owen > >Taylor didn't want to patch the Gnulib snapshot in Glib. > > I'm not sure either. So far i don't see any problems including this line in > our init scripts. > > On the other side, dbmail is the only programm needing this library on our > solaris systems so far.
It's a fault in DBMail, to be sure. But nearly all platforms are now resilient to this issue. Bruno Haible on the bug-gnulib mailing list got back to me less than three hours after I sent a message linking to a patch to handle null string args and he accepted a modified version of the patch. So upstream Gnulib is now null-safe. Next stop will be Glib, to ask them to grab the updated Gnulib. For now, I'll add a README.solaris that explains the lib/[EMAIL PROTECTED], but hopefully this will become a non-issue a few months down the road. Aaron
