[5624] in Athena Bugs
telnet exits when it shouldn't
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Sun Jul 29 15:56:22 1990
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 90 15:56:10 -0400
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@PIT-MANAGER.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I agree that the current behavior is incorrect; we should look into
whether or not this patch correctly fixes the problem.
In article <56353@wlbr.IMSD.CONTEL.COM>, sms@wlv.imsd.contel.com (Steven
M. Schultz) writes:
|> Subject: telnet close command causes premature exit (+FIX)
|> Index: ucb/telnet.c 4.3BSD
|>
|> Description:
|> The "close" command causes telnet to exit rather than closing
|> the connection and returning to the command loop.
|>
|> Repeat-By:
|> Establish a telnet connection, escape (^]) back to the
|> telnet command prompt and type "close". Note that telnet
|> exits rather than permitting another connection to be opened.
|>
|> Fix:
|>
|> Change the return value of bye() to 0 rather than 1.
|>
|> *** telnet.c.old Tue May 27 12:47:07 1986
|> --- telnet.c Fri Jul 27 08:10:57 1990
|> ***************
|> *** 1973,1979 ****
|> for (op = hisopts; op < &hisopts[256]; op++)
|> *op = 0;
|> }
|> ! return 1;
|> }
|>
|> /*VARARGS*/
|> --- 1973,1979 ----
|> for (op = hisopts; op < &hisopts[256]; op++)
|> *op = 0;
|> }
|> ! return 0;
|> }
|>
|> /*VARARGS*/
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