[Mesa-dev] Truncated extensions string

[Ian Romanick]

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On 03/15/2011 08:29 AM, José Fonseca wrote:
> Attached is a new version of the patch that keeps the extensions sorted
> alphabetically in the source code, and sorts chronologically in runtime.
> (Note the patch doesn't apply against the tip of master, but a version a
> few weeks old -- I'll update before committing to master.) 

I don't see how this fixes the problem, so perhaps I'm misunderstanding
the problem.  Don't these buggy apps still get an extension string
that's longer than they know how to handle?  That's why Ken mentioned
the use of an environment variable so that the app only ever sees, for
example, the extensions that existed before 2003.

After all, the apps that aren't smart enough to dynamically allocate a
buffer probably also aren't smart enough to use strncmp *and* add a NUL
terminator to the string.

Right?

> Also attached is a patch for glxinfo that sorts all extensions
> alphabetically.
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