mapserver crash when opening a non existing shape file

[assefa]

ex :
<?php
dl("php_mapscript_40.dll");

$oShapFile = ms_newShapeFileObj("c:/msapps/gmap/data/roads", -1);

?>

if roads does not exsit there is a crash happning in the msSHPCloseFile 
function.

I have tested this on Windows. Not sure if it happens on other platforms.

[assefa]

reported initially by Michael Härtel <mhaerte1@gwdg.de>.

[assefa]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 343 ***

[dmorissette]

Reopened.  It doesn't seem that this was a duplicate of 343 after all.

[sdlime]

This works in perl on Linux. The shapefile doesn't exist and the script fails as
you'd expect.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use mapscript;

$shapefile = new mapscript::shapefileObj("/usr/local/data/roads", -1) or die
"Unable to open shapefile.";

Steve

[assefa]

Corrected in mapscript_i.c (r1.65). Used calloc instead of malloc when 
creating a new shapefile object.