[5523] in Athena Bugs
[scs@ADAM.MIT.EDU: finger bug]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Harrington)
Thu Jul 12 14:30:06 1990
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 90 14:29:31 -0400
From: Joe Harrington <jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 90 13:06:36 EDT
From: Steve Summit <scs@ADAM.MIT.EDU>
To: jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: scs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: scs@ADAM.MIT.EDU
Subject: finger bug
Could you forward this to somebody appropriate at athena? (What
is the appropriate bug mailbox? "bug" is a real user's login name...)
If you finger two people at once, and the first one is both
logged in currently and fingerable athena-wide, the second
(athena-wide) listing for the first person has the "On since"
line interestingly corrupted. The bug is not elicited if only
one person is fingered at a time.
This bug was observed on an RT. It looks like some kind of
uninitialized variable or local buffer or aliasing problem.
See the attached typescript.
Steve Summit
scs@adam.mit.edu
Script started on Thu Jul 12 12:48:34 1990
athena% finger me rjw
Local:
Login name: me In real life: Melanie E. Holland
Phone: 253-5009, 492-6983
Directory: /mit/me Shell: /bin/csh
On since Jul 12 12:40:39 on ttyp1 from HSTBME.MIT.EDU
No Plan.
Login name: rjw In real life: ???
Athena-wide:
Login name: me In real life: Melanie E. Holland
Phone: 253-5009, 492-6983
Directory: /mit/me Shell: /bin/csh
On since Melanie E. Holland on ttyp1 on host E40-008-6.MIT.EDU
No Plan.
Login name: rjw In real life: Robert J Wilt
Phone: 250-4287, 629-2166
Directory: /mit/rjw Shell: /bin/csh
Not currently locatable.
No Plan.
athena% finger me
Local:
Login name: me In real life: Melanie E. Holland
Phone: 253-5009, 492-6983
Directory: /mit/me Shell: /bin/csh
On since Jul 12 12:40:39 on ttyp1 from HSTBME.MIT.EDU
No Plan.
Athena-wide:
Login name: me In real life: Melanie E. Holland
Phone: 253-5009, 492-6983
Directory: /mit/me Shell: /bin/csh
On since Thu Jul 12 12:40:58 1990 on ttyp1 on host E40-008-6.MIT.EDU
No Plan.
athena% machtype
rt
athena% date
Thu Jul 12 12:49:45 EDT 1990
athena%
Script done on Thu Jul 12 12:49:46 1990
