Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: hacknews Subject: getpwent(3) 'cancer' bug fixed Message-ID: <3934@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 15:56:06 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.3934 Posted: Tue Jun 5 15:56:06 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 15:56:06 EDT Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 8 Fixed a nasty and long-known bug in getpwent(3) and relatives: they did not cope properly with password-file lines with the wrong number of fields, with the result that a botched manually-edited line caused 'cancer': a steadily growing number of garbage lines, multiplying as the file got rewritten by password changes. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry