[3422] in testers
Bugs in attach -Padd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Apr 12 17:38:59 1998
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 17:38:52 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Cc: cfields@MIT.EDU
Aaron Ucko recently reported that "attach -Padd -e -b" gives output
appropriate for a csh-based shell. And in fact, the conditional near
the end of add.c doesn't take into account Bourne shell output in the
-e case. That may have been intentional, but I think some Bourne
shell users would like to be able to use athena_path. (I don't know
*why*, but at least Aaron seems to want to.) At any rate, the
documentation doesn't mention this gap at all.
But, more importantly, while exploring this problem I got "attach
-Padd" to seg fault, by running
attach -Padd -e -b netbsd
as root on a Sun. It appears that sl_grab_string(path, ' ') was
returning NULL and this caused the corresponding printf to dump core.
The whole conditional there needs more error-checking.
