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Article #239Re: Yet ANOTHER null pointer dereference problem (in "cat")
From: Bill Shannon
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1985 07:17
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1985 07:17
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> Probably not until they run into the same situation that forced Berkeley
> to do something about it: a machine which *cannot* support a readable
> location 0. (Let there be no illusions that Berkeley fixed *NULL problems
> out of nobility or purity of heart; they fixed them because they had no
> choice if they wanted their code to run on the first Suns.)
> --
> Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
> {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
Actually, Sun made the fixes and gave them back to Berkeley, to help
all the other poor slobs who started with 4.xBSD as a porting base.
Berkeley was very good about taking these fixes back. If/when we get
a line into AT&T, we will give them the fixes too. I hope they will
also be willing to take back such fixes. I strongly urge both Berkeley
and AT&T to build their systems such that access to location zero causes
a fault, and then fix all the bugs that turn up.
Bill Shannon
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