Re: Completing users crash XEmacs 21.2.7

Monday, 1 March 1999

        Gunnar Evermann <ge204(a)eng.cam.ac.uk&gt; writes:

...
 The problem is that the result of getpwent is just copied to the
 username cache (dired.c:676):

           cache[clen++] = strdup (pw->pw_name);

 later on (dired.c:693) these entries are cast to Bufbyte *:

       Bufbyte *d_name = (Bufbyte *) user_cache[i];

 obviously these need to use one of those funky GET_CHARPTR_* macros.

 Maybe somebody who understands MULE can make a patch for this.
 Otherwise I will read up on MULE and send a patch next week. 
Heh, I'm tempted not to fix this so you have to read up on Mule.  :-)

Anyway, casting stuff to (Bufbyte *) is, as usual, bad juju.  In
December I sent out a patch that Mule-izes the username completion
stuff, but it apparently hadn't got applied.  The patch is available
at:

<URL:http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-patches/9812/msg00053.html...

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