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authorAllen Byrne <byrn@hdfgroup.org>2011-02-07 21:23:22 (GMT)
committerAllen Byrne <byrn@hdfgroup.org>2011-02-07 21:23:22 (GMT)
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[svn-r20060] Missing null character on return of get_comment - force \0
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/h5dump/h5dump.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/h5dump/h5dump.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/h5dump/h5dump.c b/tools/h5dump/h5dump.c
index 5ab96ac..6b1f576 100644
--- a/tools/h5dump/h5dump.c
+++ b/tools/h5dump/h5dump.c
@@ -2651,14 +2651,14 @@ dump_comment(hid_t obj_id)
cmt_bufsize = H5Oget_comment(obj_id, comment, buf_size);
- /* if the actual length of the comment is longer than cmt_bufsize, then call
- * H5Oget_comment again with the correct value.
+ /* call H5Oget_comment again with the correct value.
* If the call to H5Oget_comment returned an error, skip this block */
if (cmt_bufsize > 0) {
comment = (char *)HDmalloc((size_t)cmt_bufsize); /* new_size including null terminator */
if(comment) {
cmt_bufsize = H5Oget_comment(obj_id, comment, cmt_bufsize);
if(cmt_bufsize > 0) {
+ comment[cmt_bufsize] = '\0'; /* necessary because null char is not returned */
indentation(indent);
printf("COMMENT \"%s\"\n", comment);
} /* end if */