[mapserver-users] MapServer with RHEL5

[Russell McOrmond]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Russell McOrmond wrote:

>  The problem appears to be that this return code is not checked, and in many 
> cases the value is assumed to be a pointer to a string.  If that NULL is then 
> used in a manipulation (say, a strdup()) then the program will core dump.  We 
> never get to see the error string as the core dump happens before the error 
> string is written to the error log.

   In case anyone else wants to track or help with this, I've filed this 
bug:

   http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2988

   It will be interesting to find out if any of the other problems people 
are experiencing with expressions turn out to be a problem with not 
checking error returns from string manipulation functions.

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