On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:19:04AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > It sounds like something's wrong in ReadConfigFile; there is a 300-character > buffer in there used with istream::getline. It looks like it attempts to > deal with longer lines, but perhaps there is a bug in it.
Ok, see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6238 I don't know the c++ library that much, and if this it right or wrong. The patch below at least lets apt-get barf instead of entering an infinite loop. Regards, Gerrit. --- apt-pkg/contrib/configuration.cc.u 2004-04-24 12:58:47.000000000 +0000 +++ apt-pkg/contrib/configuration.cc 2004-04-24 12:59:00.000000000 +0000 @@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ int CurLine = 0; bool InComment = false; - while (F.eof() == false) + while (F.good()) { F.getline(Buffer,sizeof(Buffer)); CurLine++; @@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ } if (LineBuffer.empty() == false) - return _error->Error(_("Syntax error %s:%u: Extra junk at end of file"),FName.c_str(),CurLine); + return _error->Error(_("Syntax error %s:%u: Extra junk at end of file or line too long"),FName.c_str(),CurLine); return true; }
