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From: battan@tc.fluke.COM (Jim Battan)
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Subject: Re: bugfix for inews (control messages cause coredump)
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Date: 28 Oct 88 15:36:23 GMT
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In article <25756@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
>It would be mightily useful if those finding this problem would start
>posting hardware/software configurations in use.
>Pyramid 98x w/OSx 4.0 and 3B2/400 w/SysVRel3.0 are `clean.'

It is obviously only going to happen on systems that give you a segmentation
violation when you try to access memory at word 0, like on Suns.  Our news
machine is a Sun 2/120 running SunOS 3.4, News B.2.11.14.  The code in
control.c tries to indirect through memory location 1 when it's done with the
list of filenames to remove.  My patch prevents this.

I'm still perplexed as to why Sun sites (including ours) haven't seen this in
the past.
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