Re: Small memory handling error in es-0.9-beta1.tar.gz

[Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>]

Your patch has been added to the FreeBSD port, and ljrittle@acm.org
is now listed as the port maintainer.  Congratulations for the new
reason for people to bug you ;)

G'luck,
Peter

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On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 07:19:13PM -0600, Loren James Rittle wrote:
> I have no idea if anyone besides me still runs es (or anyone cares to
> maintain their copies), but here is a patch to the last public release
> (that I know of).  It bites you when you configure --with-readline and
> then proceed to enter a really long command line under the built
> shell.  To ensure that you don't accidentally reverse patch it to a
> source tree where it was already done: It is strictly not legal to
> call the sequence: ``efree(X); X = erealloc(X, Y);''.
> 
> I always love it when you can fix a bug by removing code. ;-)
> 
> [Note to BSD ports maintainer: The port lives in /usr/ports/shells/es
>  and this patch has been tested as /usr/ports/shells/es/files/patch-ab .
>  Also (responding to the comment in revision 1.9 of the port's
>  Makefile), as a non-committer and only if it helps, I would be happy
>  to be listed in the Makefile as MAINTAINER= ljrittle@acm.org .]