tar/Fix-iconv-usage.patch
2019-09-30 11:18:06 -04:00

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From 3da8c2850d6589b9fa387ab2a2c87355d1224b1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:59:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 49/58] Fix iconv usage.
Patch by Christian Weisgerber.
* src/utf8.c (utf8_convert): non-zero return from iconv means failure.
---
src/utf8.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/utf8.c b/src/utf8.c
index 95a016d..91476aa 100644
--- a/src/utf8.c
+++ b/src/utf8.c
@@ -81,7 +81,18 @@ utf8_convert (bool to_utf, char const *input, char **output)
outlen = inlen * MB_LEN_MAX + 1;
ob = ret = xmalloc (outlen);
ib = (char ICONV_CONST *) input;
- if (iconv (cd, &ib, &inlen, &ob, &outlen) == -1)
+ /* According to POSIX, "if iconv() encounters a character in the input
+ buffer that is valid, but for which an identical character does not
+ exist in the target codeset, iconv() shall perform an
+ implementation-defined conversion on this character." It will "update
+ the variables pointed to by the arguments to reflect the extent of the
+ conversion and return the number of non-identical conversions performed".
+ On error, it returns -1.
+ In other words, non-zero return always indicates failure, either because
+ the input was not fully converted, or because it was converted in a
+ non-reversible way.
+ */
+ if (iconv (cd, &ib, &inlen, &ob, &outlen) != 0)
{
free (ret);
return false;
--
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