GNU bug report logs - #30116
[PATCH] `substitute' crashes when file contains NUL characters (core-updates)

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 01:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 30116 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30116: [PATCH] `substitute' crashes when file contains NUL characters (core-updates)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 12:23:17 +0100

Hi,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> I've encountered the following crash when trying to use substitute on a
> file which contains NUL characters:

Yes, that’s because Guile’s ‘regexp-exec’ simply wraps libc’s ‘regexec’,
which does not handle NULs.

We should consider switching to the pure-Scheme SRFI-115:

  https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-115/srfi-115.html

Ludo’.
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