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From: bostic@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Error in getservent
Message-ID: <20283@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 12:13:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.20283
Posted: Tue Aug 25 12:13:41 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Aug-87 06:48:31 EDT
References: <2861@psuvax1.psu.edu>
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Lines: 9
Keywords: BSD 4.3 getservent.c
Summary: This fix is wrong, don't apply it.

In article <2861@psuvax1.psu.edu>, ehrlich@psuvax1.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) writes:
> ... although /usr/include/netdb.h indicates that the s_port field of a
> servent is an int, not even an u_long, the routine getservent was still
> assuming this field to be a u_short.  Below is the patch to correct
> this oversight.

The problem with this fix is that it gets placed into the port field of a
sockaddr_in, which is a u_short.  With the posted fix, all port numbers
will be set to zero.  Do not apply the fix.