[INPUT] Fix NUL skipping in preadbuffer

On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 07:50:54PM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:56:00PM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote:
> > When analysing the bug I came to the following conclusion: The loop
> > beginning at input.c:302 overwrites a single input line with itself,
> > skipping NUL characters. Therefore, after the loop the line buffer
> > has less characters than originally read if and only if the input line
> > contains NUL characters.
>
> yes.  Thanks a lot for the details and patch.
>
> > The pointer that is used to read from the buffer, 'parsenextc' (cf.
> > input.h:66), is also used as the beginning of the next line in
> > input.c:296. This fails if the buffer contains less characters
> > than originally read into it due to NUL characters.
> >
> > The proposed patch (attached) keeps track of the number of skipped
> > characters and advances 'parsenextc' accordingly before processing
> > the next input line.
>
> Hi Herbert, please see
>  http://bugs.debian.org/317516

Instead of moving the characters in the loop, we will do memmove every
time we see a NUL character.  This hurts if there are a lot of NUL
characters, but should be a win in normal situations.

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