Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Fix out of boundary reads in pacsort.

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 04:01:17PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:

Fixing that strndup is preferable. I want to keep the ability to handle \0 delimited fields given that is what pacman --machinereadable does (despite that option not being ubiquitous at the moment...)

If \0 is a valid field _and_ line delimiter, the parsed input becomes ambiguous. How is that supposed to be handled? Tobias