[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #402: v.in.ogr buffer overflow

[GRASS GIS]

#402: v.in.ogr buffer overflow
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  Reporter:  epatton  |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org                 
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  new                                       
  Priority:  major    |   Milestone:  6.4.0                                     
 Component:  Vector   |     Version:  svn-develbranch6                          
Resolution:           |    Keywords:  buffer overflow, vector, shapefile, import
  Platform:  Linux    |         Cpu:  x86-64                                    
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Comment (by epatton):

 I noticed the "OGRFeature16GetFieldAsString" error that we both had, and
 thought there might be a problem with the dbf file that was causing this
 error, so I tried opening it in Open Office, but that program chokes with
 an error "Unable to open file for reading". I then renamed the dbf to
 something else, and tried importing the shapefile via v.in.ogr and it
 worked! I can view the vector fine; v.info doesn't show anything out of
 the ordinary.

 This is still disconcerting, as the attributes have not survived the
 import. It's not a big problem for the polygons I'm using in this case, as
 their only purpose is to be rasterized into masks later on, but
 still...and I can't understand why ooffice won't open the dbf; gnumeric
 doesn't have any problem opening it.

 ~ Eric.

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