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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
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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.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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