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From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Bug in expire: uninitialized pointer (FULLSYSNAME)
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 05:35:29 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 16 05:35:29 1985
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I'm having problems porting news 2.10.2 to the 68000, which barfs on
NULL pointers.  Expire core dumps on me, when in hread() it tries to
copy (via strcpy()) FULLSYSNAME to bfr.  At this point, FULLSYSNAME is
NULL (uninitialized), so the call is essentially strcpy(bfr, 0).  I
suspect that this bug is pervasive throughout the code.

Has anyone made the appropriate modifications to avoid this problem?
Could you send me the fixes, or pointers (no pun intended) to where I
can get working code?
-- 
Ken Turkowski @ (CADLINC --> CIMLINC), Menlo Park, CA
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