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Re: Msg: input buffer overflow in lcrash.

To: Andreas Herrmann <AHERRMAN@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Msg: input buffer overflow in lcrash.
From: "Matt D. Robinson" <yakker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 10:52:31 -0700
Cc: Evandro Tadeu S Vargas <gevandro@xxxxxxxxxx>, lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx
Organization: Alacritech, Inc.
References: <OF45C88BE4.06840B7F-ONC1256A9B.0025B5E7@de.ibm.com>
Sender: owner-lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx
Luc, are you going to look into this, or should I?

--Matt

Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't have a solution to this, but a "workaround".
> On startup lcrash tries to read files for the embedded sial-interpreter.
> By default such files are searched under /usr/share/sial/lcrash/.
> One such file is ps.sial providing a new command for lcrash.
> While reading this file the error occurs.
> 
> Just remove this file and the file 'scripts/ps.sial' in the lcrash
> directory to avoid
> automatical loading of the file on startup and installation of ps.sial when
> calling 'make install', respectively.
> 
> Of course, when using the workaround, you are not able to use the
> functionality provided by libsial.
> So, a real bug fix has to be found yet.
> 
> PS: The error occurs not only on S390, I've also seen the error on intel
> platform. If  I found time I'll go
> deeper into this.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andreas
> 
> --
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> email :  aherrman@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Evandro Tadeu S Vargas/Brazil/IBM@IBMBR@oss.sgi.com on 07/31/2001 06:17:19
> PM
> 
> Please respond to Evandro Tadeu S Vargas/Brazil/IBM@IBMBR
> 
> Sent by:  owner-lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> To:   lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx
> cc:
> Subject:  Msg: input buffer overflow in lcrash.
> 
> Hi,
> 
>      I'm  testing lcrash in Linux/390 (Suse 2.2.16) for processing dump.
> After compiler the lkcdutils,
>  i created an dump (using Linux/390 standalone dump) and lcrash show
> following msg:
> 
>               input buffer overflow, can't enlarge buffer because scanner
> uses REJECT
> 
>      Could you explain this message and possible solution ?
> 
>                  TIA.
>                                              Evandro Vargas

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