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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Patch #2 to Pcomm v1.1
Message-ID: <416@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 88 10:29:31 GMT
References: <13900004@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <13900004@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> hood@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>This patch will fix the problem that some people are having with 
>seqmentation faults (although I'm not convinced the problem isn't
>in their compiler).

It isn't.  It's the famous *NULL bug.

>! 	if (*lock_path != NULL && lock_path != NULL) {

This only tests whether lock_path is legal *after* trying to use it!