[PHP4BETA] Re: off by one error strikes back

Brian Bruns camber at umcc.ais.org
Thu Dec 9 19:55:50 EST 1999



perhaps an LD_LIBRARY_PATH issue? Well, I'm glad it is working anyway.

Brian

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 richard at iguana.co.nz wrote:

> > > Except this time in the opposite direction. It appears we're now getting a
> > > NULL on the end of string data pulled from a sybase table.
> > > 
> > > Platform: debian slink with latest (as of Dec 9, 4pm NZDT) cvs of both
> > > 	  freetds and php4.
> > > 
> > > Given that the freetds guys reckoned it was an issue with their stuff last
> > > time, it could be that again, or maybe something different. I'm hunting
> > > for it now but if anyone has any good ideas they'd be appreciated. I note
> > > that according to the diff on the php tree the php guys haven't touched
> > > the relevant areas of php_sybase_ct.c for some time so I'm starting my
> > > hunt in freetds.
> > > 
> > > Richard.
> > > 
> > Most of the recent changes have been in dblib, not ct so I'm not sure what
> > it could be. tds_convert_* was changed to include the null in the returned
> > length to fix the problem.  PHP seems to be acting the same way as well.
> > I won't have time to look into before tonight, but we'll see then.
> > 
> > Brian
> 
> Here's something interesting. Got in this morning to discover it was doing
> exactly the opposite again, truncating by one. reversed my change from
> yesterday and it came right again. Very strange, but I submit that it must
> have been (somehow, I don't know how) an old file lying around somewhere
> which caused the difficulty. Until further information comes to hand, I
> recommend that it be considered a mistake in config by me. Apologies.
> 
> Richard.
> 
> 




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