[PATCH v2 1/4] Cygwin: console: Add workaround for broken IL/DL in xterm mode.

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  1 15:38, Takashi Yano wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> On Sat, 29 Feb 2020 19:10:02 +0100
> Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> > One more important note: the current implementation has a potential 
> > buffer overrun issue, because it writes first, and only then checks 
> > whether that may have overrun the buffer.  And the check itself is off 
> > by one, too:
> > 
> > >    wpbuf[wpixput++] = x; \
> > >    if (wpixput > WPBUF_LEN) \
> > >     wpixput--; \
> > 
> > That's why my latest code snippet does it differently:
> > 
> >  >      if (ixput < WPBUF_LEN)
> >  >        {
> >  >          buf[ixput++] = x;
> >  >        }
> 
> Indeed. You are right. Thanks for pointing out that.
> Another similar problem exists in console code of escape
> sequence handling, so I will submit a patch for that.
> 
> As for wpbuf, please continue to fix.

Yeah, a patch in `git format-patch' format would be most welcome.

For a first-time contribution (and then never again) we also need
a 2-clause BSD license waiver per https://cygwin.com/contrib.html


Thanks,
Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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