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reading links or attributes as char array of length 1 crashes ioc

Bug #1714241 reported by Dirk Zimoch on 2017-08-31

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1678494: IOC crashes for DBR_CTRL_CHAR request with 1 array element. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	EPICS Base	New	Undecided	Unassigned

This crashes a 3.15.5 ioc:

caget -#1 somerecord.VERS$
caget -#1 somerecord.RTYP$
caget -#1 somerecord.INP$
caget -#1 somerecord.FLNK$

But this works:
caget -#1 somerecord.NAME$

3.16.1 is fine.

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mdavidsaver (mdavidsaver) wrote on 2017-08-31:

Can you re-test with the latest 3.15 branch from VCS? I think you have found lp:1678494

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Dirk Zimoch (dirk.zimoch) wrote on 2017-08-31:

The current snapshot seems to be ok. Please add a patch file to the Known Problems page.

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Andrew Johnson (anj) wrote on 2017-08-31:

Patch for lp:1678494 bug-fixes added to the 3.15.5 Known Problems page.

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