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Version 4.6.2 [v4-stable] (rgerhards), 2010-03-??
- new feature: "." action type added to support writing files to relative
pathes (this is primarily meant as a debug aid)
+- bugfix(temporary): message-induced off-by-one error (potential segfault)
+ Some types of malformed messages could trigger an off-by-one error
+ (for example, \0 or \n as the last character, and generally control
+ character escaption is questionable). This is due to not strictly
+ following a the \0 or string counted string paradigm (during the last
+ optimization on the cstring class). As a temporary fix, we have
+ introduced a proper recalculation of the size. However, a final
+ patch is expected in the future. See bug tracker for further details
+ and when the final patch will be available:
+ http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=184
+ Note that the current patch is considered sufficient to solve the
+ situation, but it requires a bit more runtime than desirable.
- bugfix: potential segfault in dynafile cache
This bug was triggered by an open failure. The the cache was full and
a new entry needed to be placed inside it, a victim for eviction was