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| -rw-r--r-- | src/common/util.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/common/util.c b/src/common/util.c index 8cb013e18..e5b51b9a9 100644 --- a/src/common/util.c +++ b/src/common/util.c @@ -4386,7 +4386,10 @@ get_string_from_pipe(FILE *stream, char *buf_out, size_t count) } } else { len = strlen(buf_out); - tor_assert(len>0); + if (len == 0) { + /* this probably means we got a NUL at the start of the string. */ + return IO_STREAM_EAGAIN; + } if (buf_out[len - 1] == '\n') { /* Remove the trailing newline */ |