rick@seismo.UUCP (Rick Adams) (09/09/84)
From hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd!decwrl!sunny Fri Sep 7 22:48:31 1984 Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site seismo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd!decwrl!sunny From: sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Wanted: contextual 'diff' program Message-ID: <1670@sun.uucp> Date: 8 Sep 84 02:48:31 GMT Date-Received: 9 Sep 84 03:55:53 GMT References: <236@callan.UUCP> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 13 Any ideas what happened to the sun in the path line? It looks like the path should be ..... decwrl!sun!sunny ---rick (A black hole is when you know the sun should be there but you can't see it, right?)
chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqles) (09/10/84)
We've seen the 'decwrl!sunny' problem before in replies to that address. it
SHOULD be 'decwrl!sun!sunny'. At one point I even remembered where the code
that was doing this bogosity was but I never tracked down a fix for it. Had
something to do with index() or rindex() and making unconsious assumptions
about the strings involved....
chuq
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> Any ideas what happened to the sun in the path line? It looks > like the path should be ..... decwrl!sun!sunny All I know is, it's been going on for a long time. -- Legalized gambling is a tax on the stupid. Phil Ngai (408) 982-6554 UUCPnet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amd!phil ARPAnet: amd!phil@decwrl.ARPA
shannon@sun.uucp (Bill Shannon) (09/18/84)
(How many times have I gone over this with how many people???....) The problem is a bug in 2.10.1 news where it makes a check for site name with prefix instead of strcmp (or something similar). The bug is triggered at the receiving site (in our case, decwrl) so there is nothing we can do to fix it. I have reported the bug and suggested (although still untested, I believe) fix to many people who have complained. Can someone confirm or deny whether the bug has been fixed in 2.10.2? (Will this become the equivalent of the line-eater bug for 2.10.2?) Bill Shannon Sun Microsystems, Inc.
rick@seismo.UUCP (Rick Adams) (09/20/84)
> The problem is a bug in 2.10.1 news where it makes a check for > site name with prefix instead of strcmp (or something similar). > The bug is triggered at the receiving site (in our case, decwrl) > so there is nothing we can do to fix it. I have reported the bug > and suggested (although still untested, I believe) fix to many > people who have complained. Can someone confirm or deny whether > the bug has been fixed in 2.10.2? (Will this become the equivalent > of the line-eater bug for 2.10.2?) This is the first I've heard of anything that specific. Following is a fix for it. It is present in ALL 2.10 and later B news versions (including 2.10.2). ---rick *** header.c.bad Wed Sep 19 19:53:47 1984 --- header.c Wed Sep 19 18:39:59 1984 *************** *** 489,495 * The old one thinks they both mean "Path" but only believes the * first one it sees, so will ignore the second. */ ! if (prefix(hp->path, FULLSYSNAME)) fprintf(fp, "Path: %s\n", hp->path); else fprintf(fp, "Path: %s!%s\n", FULLSYSNAME, hp->path); --- 489,496 ----- * The old one thinks they both mean "Path" but only believes the * first one it sees, so will ignore the second. */ ! if (prefix(hp->path, FULLSYSNAME) && ! index(NETCHRS, hp->path[strlen(FULLSYSNAME)])) fprintf(fp, "Path: %s\n", hp->path); else fprintf(fp, "Path: %s!%s\n", FULLSYSNAME, hp->path);