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Buffer.add_channel hangs #5004

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vicuna opened this issue Mar 18, 2010 · 1 comment
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Buffer.add_channel hangs #5004

vicuna opened this issue Mar 18, 2010 · 1 comment
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vicuna commented Mar 18, 2010

Original bug ID: 5004
Reporter: myst
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2010-03-28T08:17:40Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Version: 3.11.1
Fixed in version: 3.12.0+dev
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

Bug description

I am trying to read whole file by doing:

let read_file_bin name =
let ic = open_in_bin name in
let b = Buffer.create 1024 in
(try Buffer.add_channel b ic max_int with _ -> ()); (* <-- HERE *)
close_in ic;
Array.init (Buffer.length b) (fun i -> int_of_char (Buffer.nth b i))

but it hangs on the line marked.

The problem is max_int and the fact that Buffer.add_channel and Buffer.resize do not check for this possibility:

let add_channel b ic len =
if b.position + len > b.length then resize b len;
really_input ic b.buffer b.position len;
b.position <- b.position + len

Something like the following would be better:

let add_channel b ic len =
if len < 0 || len > Sys.max_string_length then
invalid_arg "Buffer.add_channel";
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vicuna commented Mar 28, 2010

Comment author: @xavierleroy

Fixed as suggested. Will go in 3.12.0.

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