Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bywater!scifi!njs
From: njs@scifi.scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich;?)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: getmaps.c has a minor problem...and AIX 2.2 problems with rnews.
Summary: off by one error
Message-ID: <NJS.88Nov18191840@scifi.scifi.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 88 00:18:40 GMT
Sender: njs@scifi.UUCP
Organization: Nick Simicich, Peekskill, NY
Lines: 20


   in misc/getmaps.c, the line:

     nbuf[BUFSIZ] = NULL;

   should probably read:

    nbuf[BUFSIZ-1] = '\0';

This walks on the next automatic variable which, on an RT/PC under 
AIX 2.2 is a pointer (nptr), and the first byte is significant.  Sorry
if this is an old chestnut, as I've just started running rnews.
Generally.  everything else worked, as soon as I realized that it
didn't want to hear about a System V system that had gethostname() and
bcopy().  I had to comment out bcopy() in funcs2.c, and I had to tell
it that I had uname() instead, even though AIX has both uname() and
gethostname().  

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