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From: roy@felix.UUCP (Roy Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.bugs.misc
Subject: Re: Obscure bug in ci,co,rcs
Message-ID: <6712@felix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 16:13:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: felix.6712
Posted: Thu Sep  3 16:13:08 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 17:21:57 EDT
References: <317@jpusa1.UUCP>
Sender: daemon@felix.UUCP
Reply-To: roy@felix.UUCP (Roy Morris)
Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA
Lines: 16
Summary: cleaner fix
Xref: mnetor comp.bugs.sys5:182 comp.bugs.4bsd:531 comp.bugs.misc:64

In article <317@jpusa1.UUCP> stu@jpusa1.UUCP (Stu Heiss) writes:
>An obscure bug surfaced when trying to co a bunch of
>files.  The variable 'linecorr' is not initialized to
>0 for each file.  This will cause editstring to break
>if linecorr happened to be < 0 at the end of doing the
>last file.  Following are diffs to rcs.c and rcsgen.c

A cleaner fix to the problem is to add the following line to the
routine initeditfiles() in rcsedit.c.  We weren't bitten by the
variable 'editline' not being initialized, but it's not worth
waiting to see if it happens.

88a89
> 	editline = linecorr = 0;

Roy Morris   FileNet Corp   ...!felix!roy