findutils-4.1, 'locate' bug

[Jeff Murphy]

fwiw,
'locate' segv's. i tracked it down to samba roaming profiles (long
filenames in IE's cache), but wasnt able to identify exactly where the bug
is in the findutils code. i've pruned the samba paths as a workaround. 

thanks,

jeff



OS= solaris7/sparc



% !locate/
locate/locate --database=/var/tmp/jeff-locatedb foobar
/other/systems/foobar
/other/systems/foobar-showrev
/source/python/Python-1.5.1/Python/thread_foobar.h
/temp/foobar.html
/u1/opnstaff/cwmiller/.ssh2/hostkeys/key_22_foobar.pub
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


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Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libintl.so.1...
warning: Lowest section in /usr/lib/libintl.so.1 is .hash at 0x74
done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdl.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-1/lib/libc_psr.so.1...done.
#0  0x123f0 in getstr (lineptr=0xffbef460, n=0xffbef45c, stream=0x23438, 
terminator=0 '\000', offset=65625)
    at getline.c:95
95            if (c == EOF || ferror (stream))
(gdb) where
#0  0x123f0 in getstr (lineptr=0xffbef460, n=0xffbef45c, stream=0x23438, 
terminator=0 '\000', offset=65625)
    at getline.c:95
#1  0x11218 in locate (pathpart=0xffbef814 "foobar", dbfile=0x23560 
"/var/tmp/jeff-locatedb")
    at locate.c:277
#2  0x114d8 in main (argc=3, argv=0xffbef6d4) at locate.c:398