On 11/09/2016 11:03 AM, Even Rouault wrote: > Le mercredi 09 novembre 2016 08:12:16, Sebastiaan Couwenberg a écrit : >> Via Launchpad issue #1640360 [0] I was informed about a segfault in the >> DODS driver when fed a JSON URL. In the related IRC discussion packagers >> are recommended to disable the DODS driver. [1] >> >> Is the DODS driver so error prone to make this recommendation? > > AFAIR, I hadn't compiled it in years before a few minutes ago (nor can I > remember > any question or bug reports related to it in recent time, except crashes or > annoyances[1] occuring > with non DODS related URL, hence a sign it might be only of marginal use) and > my past memories with it were not so good when it is fed with "random" URLs. > I somehow > remember crashes occuring in libdap itself (perhaps due to how the driver > uses it?), > but perhaps the situation in it has improved with more recent versions of > libdap. > > Here the crash occurred in the GDAL driver code, so I've fixed it per > https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/6718 / > https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/changeset/36175, which you might backport in the > Debian > package.
Thanks for the fix, I've included it as a patch in the Debian package. That's a much better option than disabling the DODS driver in my opinion as it avoids an ABI break. I'll first upload a new gdal revision to Debian before including the patch in the UbuntuGIS packages too. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1 _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
