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From: Sam Kendall
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1985 02:48
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1985 02:48
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I recently rmgroup'd locally a bunch of obsolete newsgroups and added a
bunch of new ones to "active". After this, readnews dumped core. This
is on a Codata 68000 machine, which will dump core for indirection of
NULL, and that's just what the bug turned out to be. The indicated
subexpression was NULL:
rfuncs.c, line 569:
if (lentab[i] == len && strncmp(name, rcline[i], len) == 0)
^^^^^^^^^
I don't have a fix, but after I deleted references to the obsolete
newsgroups in my .newsrc, readnews ran fine.
inews is 2.10.2 but readnews is 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85 on this
system.
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Sam Kendall "This bug found with
Delft Consulting Corp. The Bcc Compiler, a
(212) 243-8700 'C' runtime checker."
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site delftcc.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!gatech!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!rdin!delftcc!sam From: sam@delftcc.UUCP (Sam Kendall) Newsgroups: net.bugs,net.news.b Subject: readnews (2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85) bug + workaround Message-ID: <102@delftcc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 21:48:33 EST Article-I.D.: delftcc.102 Posted: Tue Nov 19 21:48:33 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Nov-85 03:54:00 EST Organization: Delft Consulting Corp., New York Lines: 21