On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 at 22:20, Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com> wrote:
Good catch, but this approach allows lrealpath to allocate a buffer larger than PATH_MAX only to error if it actually does. lrealpath is intended to be the same as realpath (aside from not resolving symlinks obviously), so it should be fixed so that it doesn't write more than PATH_MAX into a provided buffer.
I tried this initially, not really being that familiar with C I couldn't really figure it out. How exactly would one communicate the error? I can return null but then that could be anything. I could also move the alpm_log_error into lrealpath but just seems messy. Maybe just truncate and don't error?
We could switch to dynamic allocation in addition to fixing lrealpath, but then the PATH_MAX checks would be pointless and should be removed.
I assumed PATH_MAX was an OS limit type of thing, so even if we had a bigger buffer it would be useless as it would not work properly with other functions. I'm guessing that's not the case?
You also never free the malloc'd path. You can run the entire test suite under valgrind with `make PY_TEST_FLAGS=--valgrind check` to catch most memory leaks.
apg
I did free it at some point. Must have accidentally checked it out at some point. Whoops