Bug #2480
closed
/usr/bin/dialog buffer size too small
Added by isenmann about 12 years ago.
Updated almost 12 years ago.
Description
Running "make config" in /usr/dports/print/ghostscript9 crashes the dialog program.
Increasing the MAX_LEN value in /usr/src/gnu/lib/libdialog/dialog.h:78 from 2k to 20k "fixes" this issue.
The output size (using the default options in the above example) is about 3.7k.
As far as I can tell, this should cause similar problems on FreeBSD whose dialog also has MAX_LEN 2048.
Suggest two changes:
- work with upstream maintainer to increase MAX_LEN (4k is sufficient, but a higher limit may be useful)
- merge up to FreeBSD r224014 which is upstream 1.1-20110707
Hmm wonder, why I haven't seen this on FreeBSD-9.1?
Looks like there are two different versions:
/usr/src/gnu/lib/libodialog/dialog.h:#define MAX_LEN 4096
/usr/src/contrib/dialog/dialog.h:#define MAX_LEN 2048
The output of "/usr/bin/dialog --help" starts with:
cdialog (ComeOn Dialog!) version 1.1-20100428
Copyright 2000-2008,2011 Thomas E. Dickey
That seems to be the version from contrib, and AFAIKS this
versions has no problem with 3.7k output.
Looks like we don't need an upstream fix, but rather just an update to a new version.
- Assignee set to dragonflybsd1
Correct, our dialog is ancient.
I saw the ghostscript crash as well.
Updating libdialog was on my mid-term to-do list, but it's nice to have a bug tracking this.
I'll take the ticket.
- Status changed from New to Closed
pavalos has completed the libdialog upgrade. Thanks Peter!
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