[5073] in Athena Bugs
rt 6.4R: inetd will coredump on "unknown service"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jaspan@Barry, MIT-Project Athena)
Mon Jun 4 22:13:32 1990
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 90 22:13:13 EDT
From: Jaspan@Barry, MIT-Project Athena <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
System name: steve-dallas
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 6.4R
Display type: apa16
What were you trying to do?
Run the inetd from uunet with switched/unswitched functionality added
by Marc and myself. To test it, I just copied Athena's inetd.conf
over to CRL.
What's wrong:
Naturally, Athena's inetd contains many sevices that don't exist at
CRL. inetd correctly sysloged messages saying "unknown service" but
immediately coredumped whenever any connection was made. I just
happened to check Athena's inetd and, sure enough, it has the same problem.
What should have happened:
It shouldn't have coredumped.
The problem is that inetd doesn't remove the unknown service entries
from its linked list of services, causing a -1 to be passed to
FD_ISSET which results in a bus error.
The fix is simple. On line 457, insert the line "sep->se_checked =
0". Then all the right cleanup will be performed.
Barr3y
