Re: Bug that bugs me

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From: Kent Forschmiedt
Date: Wed, 10 May 1989 19:44

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In article <1709@vicom.COM> lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair) writes:
>There is a very minor bug in mush that has been there from at least 6.1.
>When I do a "mush -C -u news" and there is no mail for news, I get the
>message:

>/usr/spool/mail/news: No such file or directory<my shell prompt>

> ...After
>not finding a string containing the message in the code, I went searching
>and decided that even if I found it, it was probably used somewhere else
>and adding the \n would screw it up.

Grep for sys_errlist; specifically, there is someplace that says 
something like:

fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s", progname, sys_errlist[errno]);

And it needs a newline.
-- 
 kent@happym.wa.com, tikal!camco!happym!kent, Happy Man Corp 206-282-9598

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From: kent@happym.wa.com (Kent Forschmiedt)
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Subject: Re: Bug that bugs me
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Date: 10 May 89 19:44:13 GMT
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