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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