[Xastir] Xastir 1.9.8 CRASHING: ***buffer overflow detected***

[Mike L]

Ok Tom thanks. I have his email address, I will email him directly.

73
Mike, W2SWR

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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 07:33:11AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Mike L wrote:
>>
>> It's up to the writer of that code to fix it ("chicoreus", AKA Paul
>> Morris.  Hi Paul!).  Alternately you can come up with a fix yourself
>> and submit it to Paul for testing and inclusion in CVS.
>>
>> I don't believe the database stuff was signed off as being complete,
>> so it's not integrated into our normal configure/make steps yet and
>> most people don't play with it.
>
> Not only that, but if you "--with-postgis" or "--with-mysql" on configure,
> it reports those things as "DEVELOPER OPTIONS" indicating that they aren't
> even "ADVANCED."  PostGIS and MySQL support has never been anything but an
> "experimental" feature, and given Mike's problems, I daresay that nobody but
> Paul has ever run using it.
>
> Yesterday I updated the Wiki page on "Persistence" to discourage the perception
> that this is a production capability.
>
> Mike, you might want to write directly to Paul and see if you can work out
> something.  He is probably not reading the mailing list these days, but you
> should be able to find his email address in the archives.
>
> It might be the case that you, Mike, will have to hunt down the bug yourself,
> since you appear to be the first and only user of that code.
>
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