jeff@alberta.UUCP (C. J. Sampson) (10/20/84)
[The 0 lines bug fools the line eater into thinking that...] I may have located part of the 0 lines bug. All articles that say they have 0 lines, but actually do have them seem to come from ism780b (execpt for one from ism780) and have notes headers. I am not to sure about what makes vnews die, because it seems to do so for some articles, but not others. I have recieved four articles along this path: alberta!ihnp4!mhuxj!mhuxn!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!sftig!sftri!sfmag!eagle!ulysses !allegra!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ism780b!<user> and only one has died. I have recieved two along this path: alberta!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!qumix!ittvax!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot !ima!ism780b!<user> and both have died. Following are all the article headers. (Articles with a **** over the From line have crashed vnews with a Floating Exception.) Does anybody have an explination? It looks like ism780 and ism780b have a bug in notes. ------------------------------------------------------------------ From ihnp4!mhuxj!mhuxn!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!sftig!sftri!sfmag!eagle!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ism780!darryl Wed Oct 17 22:17:39 1984 Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site alberta.UUCP Path: alberta!ihnp4!mhuxj!mhuxn!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!sftig!sftri!sfmag!eagle!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ism780!darryl From: darryl@ism780.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: setjmp: read the manual Message-ID: <408@ism780.UUCP> Date: 18 Oct 84 04:17:39 GMT Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:51:07 MDT Lines: 0 Nf-ID: #R:sun:-173500:ism780:12500015:000:307 Nf-From: ism780!darryl Oct 17 12:07:00 1984 **** From ihnp4!mhuxj!mhuxn!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!sftig!sftri!sfmag!eagle!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ism780b!jim Wed Oct 17 22:31:46 1984 Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site alberta.UUCP Path: alberta!ihnp4!mhuxj!mhuxn!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!sftig!sftri!sfmag!eagle!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ism780b!jim From: jim@ism780b.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: setjmp: read the manual Message-ID: <69@ism780b.UUCP> Date: 18 Oct 84 04:31:46 GMT Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:51:11 MDT Lines: 0 Nf-ID: #R:sun:-173500:ism780b:25500042:000:976 Nf-From: ism780b!jim Oct 16 19:43:00 1984 From ihnp4!mhuxj!mhuxn!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!sftig!sftri!sfmag!eagle!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ism780b!jim Wed Oct 17 22:32:41 1984 Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site alberta.UUCP Path: alberta!ihnp4!mhuxj!mhuxn!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!sftig!sftri!sfmag!eagle!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ism780b!jim From: jim@ism780b.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: setjmp: read the manual Message-ID: <70@ism780b.UUCP> Date: 18 Oct 84 04:32:41 GMT Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:51:16 MDT Lines: 0 Nf-ID: #R:sun:-173500:ism780b:25500043:000:756 Nf-From: ism780b!jim Oct 16 19:47:00 1984 From ihnp4!mhuxj!mhuxn!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!sftig!sftri!sfmag!eagle!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ism780b!jim Wed Oct 17 22:33:36 1984 Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site alberta.UUCP Path: alberta!ihnp4!mhuxj!mhuxn!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!sftig!sftri!sfmag!eagle!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ism780b!jim From: jim@ism780b.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: setjmp: read the manual Message-ID: <71@ism780b.UUCP> Date: 18 Oct 84 04:33:36 GMT Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:51:20 MDT Lines: 0 Nf-ID: #R:sun:-173500:ism780b:25500044:000:683 Nf-From: ism780b!jim Oct 16 19:54:00 1984 From ihnp4!mhuxj!mhuxn!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!sftig!sftri!sfmag!eagle!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ism780b!jim Wed Oct 17 22:34:36 1984 Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site alberta.UUCP Path: alberta!ihnp4!mhuxj!mhuxn!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!sftig!sftri!sfmag!eagle!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ism780b!jim From: jim@ism780b.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Must a NULL pointer be a 0 bit patte Message-ID: <72@ism780b.UUCP> Date: 18 Oct 84 04:34:36 GMT Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:51:23 MDT Lines: 0 Nf-ID: #R:wjh12:-52900:ism780b:25500045:000:220 Nf-From: ism780b!jim Oct 16 19:57:00 1984 **** From ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!qumix!ittvax!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ism780b!jim Wed Oct 17 22:29:47 1984 Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site alberta.UUCP Path: alberta!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!qumix!ittvax!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ism780b!jim From: jim@ism780b.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: 6 char externs and the ANSI standard Message-ID: <67@ism780b.UUCP> Date: 18 Oct 84 04:29:47 GMT Date-Received: 20 Oct 84 01:57:24 GMT Lines: 0 Nf-ID: #R:tekecs:-409500:ism780b:25500041:000:1832 Nf-From: ism780b!jim Oct 16 19:17:00 1984 **** From ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!qumix!ittvax!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ism780b!paul Wed Oct 17 22:30:50 1984 Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site alberta.UUCP Path: alberta!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!qumix!ittvax!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ism780b!paul From: paul@ism780b.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: setjmp: read the manual Message-ID: <68@ism780b.UUCP> Date: 18 Oct 84 04:30:50 GMT Date-Received: 20 Oct 84 01:57:28 GMT Lines: 0 Nf-ID: #R:sun:-173500:ism780b:25500039:000:1643 Nf-From: ism780b!paul Oct 16 14:29:00 1984
stevel@haddock.UUCP (10/24/84)
I am the notes administrator on ima. The feed for ism780 and ism780b. We will check into the problem. I currently have two theories. Sugestions welcome. 1) The new version of notes we are running is dropping the lines count. 2) I have noticed that n44a, someone we feed notes to, has started feeding out into news land. It may be the n44a to wjh12 link where things are failing. the local map is machine running notes. ima, haddock, ism780, ism780b, imd, cfib, n44a. haddock, and I think ism780 run the latest version of notes 1.6.? machines running news. bbncca, cca, wjh12(?)j bbncca --- | >>>>IMA -------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | cca ----- haddock inmet cfib n44a | | | -------------- ???? wjh12 ISM780 IMD 2 machines | | Other news machines ISM780B Steve Ludlum, decvax!yale-co!ima!stevel, {amd70|ihnp4!cbosgd}!ima!stevel decwrl!amd70!ima!stevel, {uscvax|ucla-vax|vortex}!ism780!stevel Interactive Systems, 7th floor, 441 Stuart st, Boston, MA 02116; 617-247-1155
stevel@haddock.UUCP (10/25/84)
We have found a new interface bug between notes and news, actually
the people at godot found the bug. Notes sends out articles in A news
format with no line count. When news 2.10.2 recieves this it
inserts a line count of 0. Hence all notes are passed on with
zero linecount.
This means all articles passed from us to godot have propagated
with a line count of 0. Since we feed out into two other machine
that currently run older versions of news, that actually count the
lines, it is problematical as to whether you will get a message
from us with a line count of zero. The problem has been fixed by
godot and I hope he will post the diffs to the net.
We will also look at making notes put out a line count. Please mail
me with any fixes you may have for this.
Steve Ludlum, decvax!yale-co!ima!stevel, {amd70|ihnp4!cbosgd}!ima!stevel
decwrl!amd70!ima!stevel, {uscvax|ucla-vax|vortex}!ism780!stevel
Interactive Systems, 7th floor, 441 Stuart st, Boston, MA 02116; 617-247-1155bruce@godot.UUCP (Bruce Nemnich) (10/25/84)
I can't take credit; this is not a new bug, just the one for which a fix was
already distributed.
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--Bruce Nemnich, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA
{astrovax,cca,harvard,ihnp4,ima,mit-eddie,...}!godot!bruce, BJN@MIT-MC.ARPAessick@uiucdcsb.UUCP (10/26/84)
I have only a few things to say about notes and the 0 line bug. 1) The current version of notes (1.6.2) outputs USENET standard headers when gatewaying from notesfiles to news. [I don't know if IMA is running this version. They do have a copy of the code]. 2) The "Lines" header line does not appear in the USENET standard document. -- Ray Essick, University of Illinois
mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (10/29/84)
The 0 lines bug certainly can't be blamed on notesfiles. It may only occur when notesfiles deletes the Lines header, or fails to generate it, but it's reasonable to expect rnews to count the lines in this case and regenerate it. It's a bug in inews, probably even my fault. (Ray is correct that Lines is not documented in RFC850. It probably should be, but it's not.) Mark
rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees) (11/09/84)
There seems to have been a lot of discussion recently about the 0 lines bug. At the risk of being redundant, I will post the "official" fix once again. In inews.c: *************** *** 622,628 fgets(bfr, BUFLEN, stdin); header.intnumlines -= 2; ! sprintf(header.numlines, "%d", header.intnumlines); /* Strip trailing " - (nf)" */ if ((cp = rindex(header.title, '-')) != NULL --- 643,651 ----- fgets(bfr, BUFLEN, stdin); header.intnumlines -= 2; ! /* if no lines header, it'll be added later */ ! if (header.numlines[0]) ! sprintf(header.numlines, "%d", header.intnumlines); /* Strip trailing " - (nf)" */ if ((cp = rindex(header.title, '-')) != NULL
dan@rna.UUCP (11/18/84)
Hi, Is there a fix for this Lines: 0 bug ? I have seen it when submitting from notesfile. Thanks. Dan ...cmcl2!rna!dan