From 5a832596a59d1055f59620d43fbb740955ce6787 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guilherme Amadio <amadio@cern.ch>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 14:13:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "[XrdCl] Make sure error message does not include a
 null-character."

This reverts commit 22d308a3dd689607ee0396860d377145836ef55b.
---
 src/XrdCl/XrdClXRootDMsgHandler.cc | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/XrdCl/XrdClXRootDMsgHandler.cc b/src/XrdCl/XrdClXRootDMsgHandler.cc
index d31f050e520..9a1f433bfb9 100644
--- a/src/XrdCl/XrdClXRootDMsgHandler.cc
+++ b/src/XrdCl/XrdClXRootDMsgHandler.cc
@@ -1225,9 +1225,7 @@ namespace XrdCl
       if( pStatus.code == errErrorResponse )
       {
         st->errNo = rsp->body.error.errnum;
-        // omit the last character as the string returned from the server
-        // (acording to protocol specs) should be null-terminated
-        std::string errmsg( rsp->body.error.errmsg, rsp->hdr.dlen-5 );
+        std::string errmsg( rsp->body.error.errmsg, rsp->hdr.dlen-4 );
         if( st->errNo == kXR_noReplicas && !pLastError.IsOK() )
           errmsg += " Last seen error: " + pLastError.ToString();
         st->SetErrorMessage( errmsg );