From 2be5446559fd82f6e84571f1e74b74222b46fdeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Allen <bruce.allen@aei.mpg.de>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 09:30:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed new unescape_string(): didn't null terminate string.

svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=9176
---
 checkin_notes | 7 +++++++
 db/db_base.C  | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index 7523aa5862..972fe74ab4 100755
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -73,3 +73,10 @@ David  4 Jan 2006
 
     db/
         db_base.C
+
+Bruce 5 Jan 2006
+    - Fixed new unescape_string(): didn't null terminate string.
+
+    db/
+        db_base.C
+
diff --git a/db/db_base.C b/db/db_base.C
index 7e1813d16d..559e8e04a8 100644
--- a/db/db_base.C
+++ b/db/db_base.C
@@ -366,10 +366,11 @@ void unescape_string(char* p, int /*len*/) {
     while (*p) {
         if (*p == '\\') {
             p++;
+            if (!*p) break; // SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN!
         }
-        if (!*p) break;
         *q++ = *p++;
     }
+    *q='\0';
 }
 
 // replace _ with \\_, % with \\%