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* Title
GNU finger-1.35 Bug Report.

* Changes
The Variable "time_between_polls" has a "volatile" quantifier.

* Reasons
ANSI C requirements.
After longjmp(3), a "non-volatile" variables has unpredictable value,
because of register assignment.

* The Finger version and where you obtained the distribution
GNU finger version 1.35 from sh.wide.ad.jp

* Your hardware
SONY RISC-NEWS 3460

* Operating system
NEWS-OS Release 4.1R #0: Fri Jul  5 16:44:29 JST 1991

* C Compiler used
@(#)MIPS RISCompiler 2.11 (from NEWS-OS 4.0R) Sat Jun 29 22:02:06 JST 1991

* Your network configuration; don't forget to mention what
  hardware, operating systems, and C compilers are used on each
  node where the bug manifests itself.
No relation.

* Patches if you have any
*** src/fingerd.c	Wed Sep 30 15:27:39 1992
--- src/fingerd.c.orig	Tue Aug 25 03:25:31 1992
***************
*** 74,82 ****
  char *hoststat;
  
  /* The amount of time (in seconds) we sleep between each poll. */
- #if __STDC__
- volatile
- #endif
  int time_between_polls = 120;
  
  /* The number of machines polled each time. */
--- 74,79 ----

* Anything else you think is relevant
Nothing.


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TANAKA Satoshi
qtanaka@cs.uec.ac.jp 

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