[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #735: r.in.wms causes g.parser buffer owerflow

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#735: r.in.wms causes g.parser buffer owerflow
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  Reporter:  marisn  |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new                      
  Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  6.5.0                    
 Component:  Raster  |     Version:  svn-develbranch6         
Resolution:          |    Keywords:                           
  Platform:  Linux   |         Cpu:  Unspecified              
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Comment (by glynn):

 Replying to [ticket:735 marisn]:

 > I used r.in.wms to download high resolution topographical maps from
 local WMS service. Download part went just fine but it resulted into 287
 tiles. Then r.in.wms calls r.in.gdalwarp
 input=/home/maris/grassdata/wms_download/topo_10k_psrs_0.png and so on 287
 tile names. Such call results in buffer owerflow in g.parser:

 I can fix the buffer overflow by using G_asprintf(), but some operating
 systems aren't going to like storing that much data in an environment
 variable (Linux 2.6 doesn't mind, but a limit of 4K for argv+environ is
 quite common).

 The Python scripting library in GRASS 7 has g.parser write the information
 to stdout rather than using environment variables, so this isn't an issue
 there.

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