FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 9:26 AM
> 
> > I don't understand code in bcp.c lines 1240 onwards.  This is
> > yours and james' code...
> > 
> > what is this byte its reading ? I don't understand what the
> > program is expecting to find here...
> 
> Yes, you are right, I think patch came from Christos
> 
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/freetds/2004q1/thread.html
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/freetds/2004q1/015049.html
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/freetds/2004q1/015068.html
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/freetds/2004q1/015077.html
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/freetds/2004q1/015569.html
> 
> Now... what this patch should fix? I'm trying to get a reply from
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/freetds/2003q4/thread.html (Cf.
> "bcp is really busted" thread).

Cf. https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/freetds/2004q1/015569.html

The patch was applied Fri Mar 12 04:04:30 2004 UTC, creating revision
1.91.  I'm sorry, somehow I seem not to have made a ChangeLog entry.  

Bill, as far as I'm concerned, hack away.  I use bcp quite a lot, but
hardly ever in native mode. You may find the attached patch helpful; it
makes the errors clearer in the unit test.   

I see several problems.  

1.  Native bcp is broken again.  You and Freddy are looking at that. 

2.  dblib error processing is broken.  The common.c error handler
returns INT_CANCEL, but t0017 doesn't receive an error.  This is a
longstanding problem, but it's infected our unit tests.  Other unit
tests also return errors, but I don't know yet which ones are expected
and which are broken.  

3.  (small problem) the common.c error handler writes to stderr, making
it unclear amidst stdout where precisely the message occured.  For that
reason, I modified t0017 to write some of its feedback to stderr.  Do
you think the handler should use stdout instead?  

I don't know how much of this affects 0.64. 

--jkl

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