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Article #27Newspurge Bug
From: haopag
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1981 10:27
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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