FreeTDS Development Group

[Sebastien FLAESCH <sf AT 4js.com>]

Frediano,

I am not 100% sure it's a problem in AIX iconv:

Read the man pages of iconv on Linux...

http://linux.die.net/man/3/iconv

"
A different case is when inbuf is NULL or *inbuf is NULL, but outbuf is not
NULL and *outbuf is not NULL. In this case, the iconv() function attempts
to set cd's conversion state to the initial state and store a corresponding
shift sequence at *outbuf. At most *outbytesleft bytes, starting at *outbuf,
will be written. If the output buffer has no more room for this reset 
sequence,
it sets errno to E2BIG and returns (size_t) -1. Otherwise it increments
*outbuf and decrements *outbytesleft by the number of bytes written.
"

Seb

On 04/04/2013 08:43 PM, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> Found!
>
> Actually the problem is in iconv AIX implementation, iconv is a function
> like
>
> size_t iconv(iconv_t cd,
>                      char **inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft,
>                      char **outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
>
> if *inbuf is NULL and *inbytesleft is 0 AIX threat input as an infinite
> buffer with zeroes so it convert an empty string (cause for libTDS view is
> an empty string) to a set of zeroes (actually up to the output buffer which
> is 4095 if you take into account space for terminator).
>
> The simpler fix is to test and assume empty string if *inbytesleft == 0 in
> tds_iconv.
>
> Frediano
>
>
>
> 2013/4/2 Sebastien FLAESCH<sf AT 4js.com>
>
> > Ok thanks.
> > We'll setup one of our AIX machines to give you access.
> > Seb
> >
> > On 03/30/2013 04:24 PM, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > > Can I have access to one of the AIX machines ??
> > >
> > > I'm currently on holidays, I'll be back on Thursday.
> > >
> > > Frediano
> >
> >
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