With bad UTF-8, cygwin can create files it can't read

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr  1 15:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Stuart,
> 
> On Mar 30 13:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mar 25 14:34, Kyzer wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I've found that if you use cygwin to create a file with badly-encoded
> > > UTF-8, readdir() gives out an entry with a name that cygwin won't
> > > subsequently accept.
> > > 
> > > * create a file using filename with hex bytes F4 8F BF BF
> > > * readdir() reports the filename as hex bytes E2 8E B3 ED BF BF
> > > * attempting to open or unlink the filename E2 8E B3 ED BF BF fails
> > > * attempting to open or unlink the filename F4 8F BF BF succeeds
> > 
> > Thanks for the testcase.  I'll have a look later this week (I hope).
> 
> Wow.  Just wow.  You found a long-standing bug in the wctomb conversion
> from UTF-16 to UTF-8.
> 
> As you probably know, Unicode values beyond the base plane (that is,
> everything > 0xffff in UTF-32 and > ef bf bf in UTF-8 notation)
> are represented as so-called surrogate pairs in UTF-16, two UTF-16
> values in the 0xd800 - 0xdfff range.
> 
> While the conversion from UTF-8 f4 8f Bf Bf to UTF-16 dbff dfff
> worked fine, the conversion back to UTF-8 has a subtil bug.  There's
> a test for a lone high surrogate pair in the underlying conversion
> function.  This tests the next UTF-16 value like this:
> 
>   if (wchar < 0xdc00 || wchar >= 0xdfff)
>     /* Handle lone high surrogate */
> 
> Notice the >= 0xdfff?  That should have been > 0xdfff.  Duh.  This
> bug is only a bit over 5 years old...
> 
> Fixed in the git repo.  I'l regenerate the today's fool..., erm, the
> today's developer snapshot on https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ later today.

Snapshot is up.  Please give it a try.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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