[1270] in testers
cleanup has a bufsiz problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Nov 30 14:16:37 1990
From: epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 90 14:16:18 -0500
To: mar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
After noticing entries in soup's console to the affect of
cleanup: Corrupt group entry "hy,tom,tompalka."
I looked at the sources.
Around line 423:
/* loop over each line in the group file */
while (fgets(buf, BUFSIZ, old)) {
/* take out tailing \n */
n = strlen(buf);
if (n) buf[n - 1] = 0;
if ((p = index(buf, ':')) == 0 ||
(p = index(p+1, ':')) == 0 ||
(p = index(p+1, ':')) == 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "cleanup: Corrupt group entry \"%s\".\n", buf);
continue;
}
What's happening is that Jay keeps his machine privatized and therefore
keeps an up to date group list of all people in a_staff. This is greater
that 1024 characters and cleanup continues reading in the middle of the
line.
Ezra
