From a7beb10458d4fa79cf212a9b9d4969459b44b91d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steffen Vogel <stvogel@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 17:32:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] made msg_fparse() more robust against strange files

---
 server/src/msg.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/server/src/msg.c b/server/src/msg.c
index cd9e7ea04..c8371b45e 100644
--- a/server/src/msg.c
+++ b/server/src/msg.c
@@ -93,7 +93,9 @@ int msg_fscan(FILE *f, struct msg *m, int *fl, double *off)
 skip:	if (fgets(line, sizeof(line), f) == NULL)
 		return -1; /* An error occured */
 
-	if (line[0] == '#')
+	/* Skip whitespaces, empty and comment lines */
+	for (ptr = line; isblank(*ptr); ptr++);
+	if (*ptr == '\0' || *ptr == '#')
 		goto skip;
 
 	/* Mandatory: seconds */