Re: [PATCH] Fix core dumps in make_services

[Adam Fedor]

On Jun 12, 2004, at 2:17 PM, Dirk Meyer wrote:

> I tracked down that make_services cause a core dump.
>
> 1. gnustep_base doess access an argumnet by "strlen(nil)"
> 2. make_services calls "createDirectoryAtPath" with usrRoot == nil.
>    (first call in line 205)
>
> To repeat do aus user "root"
>
> $ rm -rf /root/GNUStep
> $ sh -c "( . /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh )"
>
> I added a patch, to catch this exeption in gnustep_base.
> patch updated to apply to 1.9.2
Do you still have these problems with gnustep-base-1.9.2?  That's very 
odd, since the patch you sent is essentially in NSFileManager already.  
It does something like

if ([path length] == 0)

but if path is nil, then the result should be 0, so it should still 
work even if it isn't pretty.