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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: preserve(1) fixed slightly
Message-ID: <4411@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 19:08:26 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  3 19:08:26 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 19:08:26 EDT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Fixed a minor bug in preserve(1), found long ago by the UTCS folks in
the course of PWB (!) conversion:  the returned value of getpwuid()
wasn't being checked.

The whole crash-recovery system remains, to quote Dennis Ritchie out
of context, "a botch and a blemish"; it needs reimplementing.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry