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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386
Keywords: BAD BUG
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.140411.1705@virtech.uucp>
Date: 18 Feb 91 14:04:11 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.184130.11321@jwt.UUCP> <1991Feb12.020625.6779@kithrup.COM> <1991Feb13.220110.1314@scuzzy.in-berlin.de> <1991Feb16.085716.1243@jadpc.cts.com>
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jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch) writes:
>One quick question though,
>  I tried to fix the problem temporarily by setting UAREARW to 0 as
>was posted.  I rebult the kernel and all was well, until cnews tried
>to run.  I got a core dump from sendbatches.  Also the dfspace utility

This is because when you set UAREAW to 0 the floating point emulator won't 
work.  If you don't have a floating poing co-processor, any floating point
operations will cause a core dump.

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