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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: 4.3 inetd bug
Keywords: 4.3bsd inetd
Message-ID: <16728@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 89 17:56:47 GMT
References: <2682@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <2682@cuuxb.ATT.COM> bsteve@cuuxb.ATT.COM (Netnews Administrator)
[Netnews Administrator??] writes:
>The expression and assignment on line 411 of src/etc/inetd.c of 4.3
>results in an ambiguous assignment. 
>
>	sep->se_wait = strcmp(arg, "wait") == 0;

This is not ambiguous---it means

	call strcmp with arguments `arg' and `wait'

	compare result of strcmp with 0, producing 1 (if equal) or 0
	(if not equal)

	assign result of comparison (0/1) to sep->se_wait

Any compiler that does something else is broken.
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