[lvc-project] On #syz test glitch

Dmitry Antipov dmantipov at yandex.ru
Tue Oct 29 15:32:19 MSK 2024


On 10/29/24 2:02 PM, Aleksandr Nogikh wrote:

> In git patches, an empty line is normally not exactly empty -- it
> contains a single whitespace character. So syzbot, when it parses an
> email message, treats really empty lines as the end of the patch.
> 
> You can avoid the problem by making sure that the patch is copy-pasted as is.

Blah. I've found that Thunderbird do some nasty tricks with empty lines even
if 'Composition' is set to 'Only Plain Text', so copy-pasting into new mail
window doesn't work as someone might expect :-(, and 'mailx' and other
command line soldiers are still our best friends.

Thanks,
Dmitry




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