Hi Andreas, I assume you are saying the bug is in the client code not the server code, yes? Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Petzold" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 5:26 AM Subject: xrd: buffer overrun when reporting checksum? > Hi, > > I've discovered a problem with the xrd interactive xrootd client > (20070321-1251). When I request a checksum of a file, the checksum value > printed is usually followed by some garbage characters: > > root://f01-101-118.gridka.de:1094/>getchecksum > /prod/subskim/SPskims/SP-Skim-R22V02/000998/200007/49602/S0002/V00/InclPhi.01.root > Checksum: crc32 2523947860PE" � > > I've checked that our checksum script returns a '\n' terminated string as > stated in the docs. > > AFAICT, the perl interface returns the correct checksum value, but I > didn't > look at the code. > > Cheers, > > Andreas > >