brffer overflow

[don fisher]

Hello,

I was trying to use Global to examined a large visualization package 
(ParaView)  While executing htags I received a buffer overflow message 
that I was able to determine was generated by line 49 strlimcpy.c

 die("buffer overflow. strlimcpy(dest, '%s', %d).", source, limit);

The limit was 1024 at this point. It was called from line 170 of 
dupindex.c

strlimcpy(first_line, _, sizeof(first_line));

The length of "first_line" is declared as

char first_line[MAXBUFLEN];

As just a hack, I increased the size by a factor of 4 and the code 
completed. I apologize in advance for not spending more time 
understanding the rational between the buffer sizes. I have another 
project, (the one I am trying to employ Global on), that is urgent.

If I had the time I would try to make the allocations dynamic, unless 
there is an external limit imposed by the HTML spec or....

Thanks for the package,
don
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