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From: pmm@mips.COM (Paul M. Moriarty)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: ELM PL10 dumps core on input overflow
Message-ID: <23286@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 14 Jul 89 15:16:45 GMT
References: <735@coplex.UUCP>
Reply-To: pmm@mips.COM (Paul M. Moriarty)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
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In article <735@coplex.UUCP> dean@coplex.UUCP (Dean Brooks) writes:
>Hello,
>   This bug may already be known by the author, but on our system which
>is running ELM Patchlevel 10, on Unix 5.2, ELM will dump core if any
>string input buffer is overflowed.  Just pick a string entry area in ELM
>(such as goto message #) and keep typing numbers.  After a few lines it
>says "Too Long.", gives a memory error and dumps core.  Just thought it
>was worth reporting in case no one had seen it before... 

I can duplicate this on a MIPS M/1000 RUNNING RISC/os 4.00 with Elm 
compiled in BSD land. Granted it took > 150 numbers to get it to die
with a segmentation violation. At least it left the temp file intact.

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OSLab SysAdmin
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