info-6.1 segmentation fault

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Fri Mar 4 21:12:00 GMT 2016


On 3/3/2016 3:31 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 3/3/2016 3:00 PM, Mikhail Usenko wrote:
>> I have just found the cause:
>>
>>  From strace output it can be observed that version 6.1
>> get an access violation exception after trying to read from the
>> .infokey file.
>>
>> And then, info-6.1 crashes if the .infokey file contains the lines that
>> disable the default key bindings by overriding them with the action
>> 'invalid'
>> according to as described in info-stnd manual.
>>
>> Perhaps it is an upstream bug.
>
> Thanks for the report.  I can confirm this on 64-bit Cygwin but not
> 32-bit.  I'll look into it.

This was indeed an upstream bug, which is now fixed.  I'll issue a new 
release with the fix.

Ken


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