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Re: ITS#1998, zero-length attr vals



At 05:00 PM 2002-08-05, Howard Chu wrote:
>Back to this issue again; the crash is actually an assert() because the
>result of normalizing a single space is a zero-length string. It seems
>we need to remove these asserts and return a failure code, or just accept the zero-length strings.

Or, fix the normalizer so that it does the right thing.
The right thing in this case (directory string) is to
normalize one or more spaces to one space.

>What's the right thing to do?

Fix the normalizer.

I'm working on this right now and should have a fix soon.

Kurt