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From: edwin@ruuinf.UUCP (Edwin Kremer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: bug in login.c (solved) Atari-ST
Keywords: login, strcpy, ATARI-ST V1.1
Message-ID: <947@ruuinf.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 89 08:09:46 GMT
Organization: Univ of Utrecht, Dept of CS
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Hello, a happy newyear to all of you out there....

I bought MINIX for the Atari-ST some time ago and noticed login.c
not setting the HOME environment variable at all (which reminds me of
one of those very old fortune cookies "You can't go home unless you
set $HOME").

The bug is in the 'strcpy' just before execing the shell; the correct
synopsis for strcpy is 'strcpy(dest, source)' NOT 'strcpy(source,dest)' !!
Well, just exchange both arguments to strcpy and everything is just fine.

							--[ Edwin ]--

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