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From: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
To: GIT Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Usage of isspace and friends
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:40:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <118833cc0510111840k715e1190l54ad65f821c77848@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Someone needs to audit the usage of isspace, tolower, and friends.  There are
things like this in the code:

static int is_dev_null(const char *str)
{
	return !memcmp("/dev/null", str, 9) && isspace(str[9]);
}

Since str[9] is of type char it should not be used as a argument to
isspace directly,
but rather be cast to unsigned char:

    ... isspace((unsigned char)str[9]);

Admittedly that is ugly.  Blame K&R.  (Glibc has a partial workaround for this
kind of coding bug.  On the up side you won't get a crash, but on the down
side you can get the wrong result.)

Morten

             reply	other threads:[~2005-10-13  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-12  1:40 Morten Welinder [this message]
2005-10-13  6:49 ` Usage of isspace and friends Junio C Hamano
2005-10-13  8:29   ` Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
2005-10-13 13:27   ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-13 15:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-13 15:04   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-13 15:45     ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-13 15:56       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-13 16:07         ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-13 15:46     ` Linus Torvalds

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