On Dec 21, 2007 3:49 AM, Alex Plotnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Specifically, the version of iconv_open(3) that ships with > NetBSD does not support the use of the empty string to denote the default > codeset[1]; it simply fails with an "unsupported codeset" error. However, > the return value of iconv_open wasn't being checked, and so iconv(3) was > subsequently being used with an invalid conversion descriptor. The effect > of this was random memory curruption, leading to unpredictable errors.
Nice. Thanks for the patch and detective work. I'm a little busy over the next couple of days as you might expect at this time of the year, but I'll get the fix integrated as soon as I can. -sqweek
