Re: problem with http clone/pull

Paul Mackerras [off-list ref] writes:

Getting alternates list for http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git/
Also look at http://git.kernel.or
error: Couldn't resolve host 'git.kernel.orobjects' (curl_result = 6, http_code = 0, sha1 = c336923b668fdcf0312efbec3b44895d713f4d81)
Getting pack list for http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git/
Getting pack list for http://git.kernel.or

I've seen this "last character of hostname dropped" symptom
mentioned on the #git channel long time ago, but I do not
remember if somebody figured out what the problem was.  I know
that nobody did a patch to specifically fix it.

Among the changes since v1.3.0 that touches http-fetch.c the
only thing I can see that touches anything related to alternates
handling is this one, but I do not see anything obviously wrong
with it X-<.

commit bfbd0bb6ecbbbf75a5caaff6afaf5a6af8fa518e
Date:   Sun Jun 11 14:03:28 2006 +0200

    Implement safe_strncpy() as strlcpy() and use it more.
    

diff --git a/http-fetch.c b/http-fetch.c
index d3602b7..da1a7f5 100644
--- a/http-fetch.c
+++ b/http-fetch.c

@@ -584,10 +584,8 @@ static void process_alternates_response(
 			// skip 'objects' at end
 			if (okay) {
 				target = xmalloc(serverlen + posn - i - 6);
-				strncpy(target, base, serverlen);
-				strncpy(target + serverlen, data + i,
-					posn - i - 7);
-				target[serverlen + posn - i - 7] = '\0';
+				safe_strncpy(target, base, serverlen);
+				safe_strncpy(target + serverlen, data + i, posn - i - 6);
 				if (get_verbosely)
 					fprintf(stderr,
 						"Also look at %s\n", target);