mclient/mapilib aborts during connect

[monetdb-team]

Date: 2010-11-19 10:43:00 +0100
From: @grobian
To: clients devs <>
Version: 1.40.1 (Oct2010) [obsolete]

Last updated: 2011-03-28 17:31:43 +0200

Comment 15209

Date: 2010-11-19 10:43:00 +0100
From: @grobian

% mclient -dvotest
Abort

A UNIX-socket connection is being made (the default) to merovingian. The same happens when a direct UNIX-socket connection is made to the mserver5 process.

The crashlog contains the following:
Process: mclient [66036]
Path: /Volumes/Scratch/fabian/monetdb/Oct2010/program-Power_Macintosh/bin/mclient
Identifier: mclient
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: PPC (Native)
Parent Process: tcsh [3309]

Date/Time: 2010-11-19 10:37:34.901 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: 7E67536F-323F-4121-A6C7-FCC8A4BC882D

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x97195b50 __kill + 12
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x97230b98 __abort + 80
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x971ee2d8 __chk_fail + 116
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x971cd020 __strncat_chk + 84
4 libMapi.1.dylib 0x000247f4 __inline_strncat_chk + 52 (_string.h:134)
5 libMapi.1.dylib 0x000228e0 mapi_start_talking + 1668 (Mapi.mx:2590)
6 libMapi.1.dylib 0x000245cc mapi_start_talking + 9072 (Mapi.mx:2968)
7 libMapi.1.dylib 0x000248a0 mapi_reconnect + 56 (Mapi.mx:3001)
8 libMapi.1.dylib 0x00024938 mapi_connect + 112 (Mapi.mx:3014)
9 mclient 0x0000c428 main + 5328 (mclient.c:2644)
10 mclient 0x00001ec8 start + 64
11 ??? 0x00000ffc 0 + 4092

Comment 15210

Date: 2010-11-19 11:06:53 +0100
From: @grobian

Changeset 4930702c69ee made by Fabian Groffen fabian@cwi.nl in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see http//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=4930702c69ee

Changeset description:

Use strcpy instead of strncat to work around what seemingly is a bug in Darwin's libc implementation of strncat.  Solves bug #2725

Comment 15657

Date: 2011-03-28 17:31:43 +0200
From: @sjoerdmullender

The Mar2011 version has been released.