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From: imtsft@imt3b2.UUCP (IMT)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Bug in Patch 9 fullname.c
Message-ID: <2976@imt3b2.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 07:35:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: imt3b2.2976
Posted: Tue Oct 13 07:35:09 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Oct-87 07:07:50 EDT
Organization: IMT Inc., Mission Viejo, CA.
Lines: 35
Keywords: patch to fullname (#9) broken


BEWARE

The patch to fullname contained in patch 9 to usenet software breaks
the fullname function on AT&T SV machines and propably on others
running SV.

The patch to allow embedded spaces in the gecos information that 
is of the form:

 	: junk - full name ( junk :


changed the line:

		if (*p == '-') {

to:
		if (*p == '-' && isspace(p[1])) {

This change makes it imperative to have a space following the '-'.
The /etc/passwd file on AT&T machines has a gecos field that does
not have the space and is therefore not handled correctly.

The simple solution is to use the previous version of fullname.

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