Annotation of 43BSD/contrib/news/uucp/bugfix, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: Date: 19 Apr 1983 6:31-PST
        !             2: From: Jim Rees  <jim@uw-beaver>
        !             3: Subject: Re:  news 2.10
        !             4: Message-Id: <83/04/19 0631.950@uw-beaver>
        !             5: 
        !             6: Meanwhile, I thought of something else you may want to include in the
        !             7: distribution.  I know that there are lots of bugs in uucp, and that it
        !             8: would be impossible to list them all in a reasonable amount of space,
        !             9: but news will not work at all on a 4.1bsd system unless this bug is
        !            10: fixed.  This bug is still in even the latest tape from Berkeley, and is
        !            11: not traceable with a debugger because of other bugs in uucp.  This bug
        !            12: causes uucico to core-dump after transferring some small (~20) number
        !            13: of files.
        !            14: 
        !            15: The fix is easy.  In anlwrk.c, routine iswrk():
        !            16: 
        !            17: *** anlwrk.c_o Wed Mar  9 07:53:09 1983
        !            18: --- anlwrk.c   Wed Sep 22 10:21:43 1982
        !            19: ***************
        !            20: *** 64,70
        !            21:   {
        !            22:        static char **listp, *list[LLEN];
        !            23:   
        !            24: !      if (listp == NULL || *listp == NULL || listp > (list + LLEN)
        !            25:          || !prefix(pre, *listp)) {
        !            26:                int i;
        !            27:                for (i = 0, listp = list; i < LLEN; i++) {
        !            28: 
        !            29: --- 64,70 -----
        !            30:   {
        !            31:        static char **listp, *list[LLEN];
        !            32:   
        !            33: !      if (listp == NULL || *listp == NULL || listp >= (list + LLEN)
        !            34:          || !prefix(pre, *listp)) {
        !            35:                int i;
        !            36:                for (i = 0, listp = list; i < LLEN; i++) {
        !            37: 
        !            38: 
        !            39: [uucp is fully of nasty bugs.  watch net.bugs.uucp for them and
        !            40: hopefully their fixes.]

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