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Newspurge Bug

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From: haopag
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1981 10:27
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For those of you using newspurge:
a bug was discovered --  cancel() calls getuser(uid), but uid has
never been set.  This really doesn't make any difference, however,
if newspurge is executed by root.  Put the following code at the
beginning of main():

	if ((uid = (unsigned) getuid()) >= (unsigned) USIZE)
		xerror("uid too big");
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From: hao!pag
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Subject: Newspurge Bug
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1981 10:27:02 +0000
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