"Daniel Stenberg" <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

>> I think I see why in _my_setopt(); the use of ISGRAPH() seems a bit weak.
>> But what to do about it?
>
> I think the only really decent way is to make a new my_setopt_str() function
> that would be used when a string is set as opposed to just some object
> pointer. Then _my_setopt() wouldn't have to guess!

I was thinking about testing if the data was writeable or not. Strings (at least on
Windows) comes from the read-only '.rdata' sections in the data-segment.
Can easily be tested with IsBadWritePtr(). On other platforms there should (?) be
a similar heuristics we can use. Or maybe the idea is not worth following?

--gv
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Received on 2009-04-19