[10445] in Athena Bugs
[daemon@MIT.EDU : Re: turnin coredump]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Wed Apr 14 12:55:34 1993
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 12:55:30 -0400
To: bugs@MIT.EDU, bug-pmax@MIT.EDU
From: "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU>
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[0190] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brlewis@Athena.MIT.EDU) Sparc Bugs 04/14/93 11:24 (27 lines)
Subject: Re: turnin coredump
From: brlewis@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 93 11:24:46 -0400
To: haynes@cats.UCSC.EDU
Cc: bug-sparc@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu's message of Mon, 22 Jul 91 18:04:57 PDT <9107230104.AA04774@felix.UCSC.EDU>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 91 18:04:57 PDT
From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu <haynes@cats.UCSC.EDU>
that turnin coredumps if you don't have any Kerberos tickets. Maybe it
only does that here on Suns - I haven't had time to figure out why yet.
It's a null-pointer dereference. Bites us on DECstations too, it turns
out. I think this patch should fix it:
*** /tmp/,RCSt1a21987 Wed Apr 14 11:21:51 1993
--- /mit/eosdev/src/lib/fx_init.c Wed Apr 14 10:42:01 1993
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*** 49,54 ****
--- 49,55 ----
#ifdef KERBEROS
+ fxp->owner = fxp->extension = "";
/* get kerberos authentication */
if (code = _fx_get_auth(fxp, ¶ms.auth)) return(code);
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