Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!sri-spam!rutgers!pleasant From: pleasant@rutgers.rutgers.edu (Mel Pleasant) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Problems with inews at patch 13 Message-ID: <6057@rutgers.rutgers.edu> Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 14:46:11 EST Article-I.D.: rutgers.6057 Posted: Fri Dec 4 14:46:11 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Dec-87 06:45:47 EST References: <501@devon.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 23 Keywords: bug inews patch13 To: paul@devon.UUCP > After applying patch 13 to my 2.11 sources (which were stable at patch 12), > I encountered the following problem: > > ... output from adb ... > > Is this an old problem that has resurfaced, or did I do something wrong? You haven't done anything wrong. There is a problem that I introduced (gulp!) in patch #13 which causes it to bomb on SysV based Unix systems. Apparently, a free() call given a NULL pointer on BSD systems simply returns. On SysV based Unix Systems, a NULL pointer argument causes a core dump. Patch #14 has just been released. You'll find it in this newsgroup. This patch, which does not contain any major new features, fixes the known problems introduced in patch #13 and therefore should be as stable as patch #12 was..... -- -Mel Pleasant uucp: {ames, cbosgd, harvard, moss, seismo}!rutgers.edu!pleasant arpa: PLEASANT@RUTGERS.EDU