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From: utzoodecvaxharpofloydcmcl2salkin...
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1982 20:08
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1982 20:08
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This bug may have been reported earlier, but I since I don't recall seeing it and it is fairly serious I am reporting it here. In uuxqt, the size of the array prm is set to MAXFULLNAME. On typical systems this is about 100 characters. The other day I had some usenet mail pass through my system with an address bigger than that; uuxqt promptly dumped core. I didn't notice the problem until a day later; I wondered why I hadn't seen any news lately. The reason: the file with the large pathname occupied the first open slot in the spool directory so uuxqt always processed this file first. The fix is simple. Just increase the size of the prm array. The diff: 51c51 > char *cmdp, prm[BUFSIZ], *ptr; --- < char *cmdp, prm[MAXFULLNAME], *ptr; Lou Salkind cmcl2!salkind
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From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!salkind Newsgroups: net.bugs,net.bugs.4bsd Title: Bug in uuxqt Article-I.D.: cmcl2.3415 Posted: Tue Jun 1 20:08:05 1982 Received: Wed Jun 2 02:57:51 1982 Subject: Bug in uuxqt Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1982 20:08:05 +0000 Message-ID: <bnews.cmcl2.3415>