Created attachment 37128 [details]
Bugfix for the described issue in apr-util-1.6.1

Hello,

When the input for a apr_brigade_split_line() ends with a linefeed, an
empty bucket will be left in the input brigade when the last input line
was processed.

In many cases this will lead to extra work for the caller, because the
input brigade is not empty after the last line was processed.

For example the httpd code has extra checks to remove empty buckets from
a brigade in httpd/server/core_filters.c:ap_core_input_filter(), where
the call to BRIGADE_NORMALIZE(b) will trigger more often.
  
The attached patch fixes this issue for the current apr-util-1.6.1 library,
and the other patch fixes this for the apr-trunk library.

Also attached is a simple apr_splittest.c program to demonstrate the issue:

test "aa aa\n":
- output without patch:
     in bucket 00: start 6 length 0 IS_EMPTY!
    out bucket 00: start 0 length 6
- output with patch:
     in brigade empty
    out bucket 00: start 0 length 6

Greetings,
Barnim