Bug in init_environ in environ.c in version 3.5

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From: Lawrence Freil
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 21:50

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In gdb version 3.5 the routine init_environ at line 78 of environ.c,
the bcopy routine is not copying the NULL terminator, and if the
memory returned by malloc is not clear the string remains unterminated
with garbage at the end.  The problem was encountered on Interactive 386/ix
but the problem is in all versions.

The following is a diff of the modified version against the origonal.

File: environ.c
78c78
<       bcopy (e->vector[i], new, len+1);
---
>       bcopy (e->vector[i], new, len);

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	Lawrence Freil	       		    Usenet/DDN:lef@dogwood.atl.ga.us
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From: lef@dogwood.atl.ga.us (Lawrence Freil)
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Subject: Bug in init_environ in environ.c in version 3.5
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Date: 6 Mar 90 21:50:29 GMT
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