Null terminated strings?

Brian Macy bmacy at siterock.com
Tue Jun 27 19:52:54 EDT 2000


Does anyone know if this particular bug is fixed in CVS and preferably
what file(s) the fix is in? .... needing to put freeTDS into production
in only 2 weeks and want to make my own patch set based off of 0.50 with
only the fixes I need.

Brian Macy

"Gary D. Duzan" wrote:
> 
>    Sounds like you are using the release version. Try the CVS
> version; it has some important things fixed.
> 
>                                         Gary Duzan
>                                         GTE Laboratories
> 
> In Message <LYR103859-64001-2000.06.27-18.28.09--gduzan#gte.com at franklin.oit.unc.edu> ,
>    "Mike" <mpultz at uniserve.com> wrote:
> 
> =>I am using Freetds on a FreeBSD 3.4 machine. It connects to the database =
> =>fine, but when it actually returns any values, the information is not =
> =>correct. For example; it goes into the database a pulls a varchar field =
> =>out that contains either Y or N (active or non active), when it returns =
> =>the value, it show's only the "Y", but it's string length is 2. If I use =
> =>the chop function (Perl), it chops the ending character (whatever it is) =
> =>and then the script works fine. Is this simply null terminating strings =
> =>when it returns them?
> =>
> =>here is some output from the script:
> =>
> =>Length=3D 2, Value =3D "Y"
> =>FATAL:  platid 1007 has impossible active value "Y". With Length 2 =
> =>Aborting.
> 
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