FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

Title: bcp_init

Hello,

I'm trying to bcp into the database where the source data are in program variables (bcp_send row). 

My bcp_init documentation says (and I'm sure this is public information, available to anyone who browses www.msdn.microsoft.com):

hfile
Is the name of the user file to be copied into or out of SQL Server. If data is being copied directly from variables using bcp_sendrow, set hfile to NULL.

which I do.  But, bcp.c::bcp_init contains the following on line 40 of version 0.50:

40              dbproc->bcp_hostfile = (char *) malloc(strlen(hfile)+1);

which is not too happy when hfile is 0x00. 

My objectives are two:

1.      To let the team know and ask if and how they'd like a fix for this.  (I've never submitted a fix to any FSF project). 

2.      To ask what the bcp_init function wants in my case.  I assume that since bcp_sendrow exists, the author must have intended to support loading from host variables. 

Thank you. 

--jkl