Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: WARNING! Serious C news bug
Message-ID: <1989Aug26.012256.4837@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <24F5005C.B1B@drivax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 89 01:22:56 GMT

In article <24F5005C.B1B@drivax.UUCP> davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison) writes:
>WARNING -- there is a serious problem in the program "updatemin.c" as
>released in the 22-Aug patch...

See the 24-Aug patch for a fix.  This is humiliating; I should have
spotted that one before sending the thing out...

>The only thing I'm not sure of, is whether rename works this way over the
>wide range of OSes out there (I'm running 4.3BSD).  Anyone know for sure?

Unfortunately, rename() is a BSDism that doesn't exist on most other Unixes.
Pity.  The file-manipulation code in expire sure could use it.
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