[6511] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.1H: finger client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Dec 2 14:43:58 1990
From: hoffmann@MIT.EDU (Ron M. Hoffmann)
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 90 14:43:42 EST
System name: paddington
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.1H (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
fingered a user on media-lab.media.mit.edu
What's wrong:
finger dumped core
What should have happened:
finger should have behaved gracefully, either truncating
the output or (better) displaying all of it.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
Follows is an example:
paddington% f simsong@media-lab.media.mit.edu
[MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU]
... (misc text removed)
This is a line that is more than 255 characters long and it causes the finger program to crash with an unexpected condition. This is a line that is more than 255 characters long and it causes the finger program to crash with an unexpectedcondition. Thi
Bus error (core dumped)
