Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!forty2!poole
From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: V1.4 #0 (introduction)
Summary: Bugs ...
Message-ID: <635@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 89 21:51:15 GMT
References: <1945@ast.cs.vu.nl> <869@nosc.NOSC.MIL>
Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
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ast writes
>> Please report bugs large and small by posting appropriate messages (and fixes,
>> where possible) to the newsgroup.
>> 

Ok, well `more' won't run as posted on a ST, but the diffs I posted a couple
of weeks ago fix that. The diffs to `sh' nearly work on the ST-Minix with
a bit of work to get the patches applied properly, except that there is a 
change in the `eval' function that causes `isassign' (in sh1.c) to be called
with a NULL pointer which promptly gets dereferenced, I haven't analysed the
problem in depth, but simply changing `isassign' to check for NULL and return
the proper return code seems to fix it (at last fast here files!).

Some more ST.Minix related bugs:

   regexp expects a third argument as distributed with ST-Minix, but I yet
   have to find a program other than `more' that actually sets it, this results
   in unpredicable behaviour in all programs that use regexp (example:
       grep '^Subject' *
   dosen't work). Matter of fact the `cgrep' that is distributed with 1.4
   doesn't call regexp with the third argument either!
 
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