Re: Assertion at line 52 of fileattr.c

[Mark D. Baushke]

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James Gatt <james173@softcookie.com> writes:

> It appears that the pointer "unrecog_head" declared as static at line
> 39 of fileattr.c is never initialised. I have recently seen a server
> crash with the assertion at line 52 failing.

The unrecog_head should have been placed into the 'bss' section and
should be getting initialized to NULL when cvs is first loaded.

> It is just me, or is this a bug that has gone unnoticed for a long
> time? (The version of the server we have is old, but I am looking in
> the current source.)

If you have the core file, you should look to see what unrecognized type
was being preserved in the FILEATTR file in your repository.

If I had to guess, you have something corrupt in your repository in a
CVS/fileattr file.

If you can describe the problem you have, we can look into making cvs
more robust for future releases.

        Good luck,
        -- Mark
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