[16331] in Athena Bugs
sgi 8.2.9: znol
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (matt debergalis)
Wed Sep 16 15:01:36 1998
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:01:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: matt debergalis <deberg@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
System name: oliver.mit.edu
Type and version: IP32 8.2.9 (with mkserv)
Display type: CRM
What were you trying to do?
use znol
What's wrong:
znol doesn't parse \t in .anyone correctly if there's a comment in a
line. the username in a line like:
deberg\t\t\t# this is a comment
isn't correctly extracted.
What should have happened:
znol should deal with \t correctly.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
patch supplied:
--- znol.c.orig Wed Sep 16 14:56:47 1998
+++ znol.c Wed Sep 16 14:56:02 1998
@@ -143,8 +143,10 @@
/* Get rid of old-style nol entries, just in case */
cp = cleanname + strlen(cleanname) - 1;
*cp = '\0';
- while(*--cp == ' ')
- *cp = '\0';
+ cp--;
+ while( (*cp == ' ') || (*cp == '\t') ) {
+ *cp-- = '\0';
+ }
if (*cleanname == '@' || !*cleanname)
continue;
} else if (ind)
--
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