[gentoo-dev] Re: [BUG and PATCH] Does dcron need a space at the end of each

[Matthew Dillon]

:I just fired gdb to find the source of this problem and found the source 
:of the problem being at line 178 of database.c
:
:was: 			buf[strlen(ptr)-1] = 0;
:is now on my system:	buf[strlen(ptr)] = 0;
:
:This line was chopping 2 char at the end of the line the last one of the 
:command and the newline. You have to remove one char but indexing 
:starts at 0 and strlen give the number of char.
:
:I'm new to patch submission, howto ?
:
:Regards

    Well, I do not know who is maintaining the linux version of dcron.
    I maintain my master source but I don't think the linux sites are
    picking it up.

    In regards to this bug, I think the problem is that it should be
    'ptr[strlen(ptr)-1] = 0' rather then 'buf[strlen(ptr)-1] = 0'.
    That is, it is trying to remove the newline at the end of the
    buffer.  The bug occurs if you have spaces at the front of the line.

    Please try 'ptr[strlen(ptr)-1] = 0' and see if that solves your
    problem.

						-Matt