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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
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Posted: Fri Dec  4 14:46:11 1987
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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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
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