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butchland/BuildItBreakItFixItForSparta: other_teams/51/code/src/bibifi/logappend/logappend.go; 20 LoC
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Description
Found a possible issue in [butchland/BuildItBreakItFixItForSparta](https://www.github.com/butchland/BuildItBreakItFixItForSparta) at [other_teams/51/code/src/bibifi/logappend/logappend.go](https://github.com/butchland/BuildItBreakItFixItForSparta/blob/ee32f74a8754b979fe51b2720c667712cc7c2fb7/other_teams/51/code/src/bibifi/logappend/logappend.go#L46-L65)
Below is the message reported by the analyzer for this snippet of code. Beware that the analyzer only reports the first
issue it finds, so please do not limit your consideration to the contents of the below message.
> reference to cmd is reassigned at line 53
[Click here to see the code in its original context.](https://github.com/butchland/BuildItBreakItFixItForSparta/blob/ee32f74a8754b979fe51b2720c667712cc7c2fb7/other_teams/51/code/src/bibifi/logappend/logappend.go#L46-L65)
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```go
for _, cmd := range cmds {
log, ok := logs[cmd.Log]
if ok {
continue
}
var lazy *cmdline.AppendCmd
if !batch {
lazy = &cmd
}
log, err = logfile.Load(cmd.Log, cmd.Token, cachef, lazy)
if err != nil {
dbg("main load: " + err.Error())
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "security error")
if !batch {
os.Exit(-1)
}
}
logs[cmd.Log] = log
keys[cmd.Log] = cmd.Token
}
```
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commit ID: ee32f74a8754b979fe51b2720c667712cc7c2fb7
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Open other_teams/51/code/src/bibifi/logappend/logappend.go and inspect lines 46-65, especially the range over cmds and the reference passed to logfile.Load. Decide whether the analyzer finding is a bug, mitigated, or desirable behavior, then record that classification using the requested reaction.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 1/5
- Estimated time
- Under an hour
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100