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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sources,net.sources.bugs
Subject: findpaths: bus errors in malloc
Message-ID: <3698@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Jan-87 16:00:11 EST
Article-I.D.: teddy.3698
Posted: Thu Jan 22 16:00:11 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Jan-87 09:04:47 EST
Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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I was getting bus errors in malloc() when I ran "findpaths" (only sometimes).
I traced the bug down to this line:

	newftp->name = malloc(sizeof(file)+1);

This is WRONG, since file is declared as a (char *), it always allocates 3
bytes, instead of enough space to hold the string for the subsequent strcpy.
Change the "sizeof" to "strlen", and findpaths works great.