R devel - Mar 2004 - segfault in browseURL()

Hello ...

Using Win2K (and reportedly WinXP), when the length of the 'url'
string
>= 280 characters, a segmentation fault occurs.
This doesn't seem to be affecting unix machines.

Thanks
-J

With what settings of argument `browser'?

If this is using file associations there is a Windows internal limit (it
designed for files and there is a 264 char path limit on files), so I
don't think you can entirely avoid this, although we can avoid the
segfault.

If you absolutely must have such long URLs, try specifying a browser 
(although you will probably find limits that way too).

As the FAQ asks, we do need a reproducible example to check the fixes.

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Jeff Gentry wrote:
> Using Win2K (and reportedly WinXP), when the length of the 'url'
string
> >= 280 characters, a segmentation fault occurs.
> 
> This doesn't seem to be affecting unix machines.
It's completely independent code between Unix and Windows.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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See the workaround at:

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/27165.html



Date:   Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:41:56 -0500 (EST) 
From:   Jeff Gentry <jgentry@jimmy.harvard.edu>
To:   <r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch> 
Subject:   [Rd] segfault in browseURL() 

 

Hello ...

Using Win2K (and reportedly WinXP), when the length of the 'url' 
string >= 280 characters, a segmentation fault occurs.

This doesn't seem to be affecting unix machines.

Thanks
-J