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Re: solaris 2.6 nroff segfault
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Whitson)
Mon Jul 27 19:03:23 1998
To: testers@MIT.EDU
From: Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>
Date: 27 Jul 1998 19:03:17 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of Mon, 27 Jul 1998 18:59:25 EDT
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Oops, sorry I didn't answer.
Not a problem; I was just reminded of it when I tried to read that
manpage again. =)
> I built the appropriate Solaris sources, reproduced the problem. It
> was too icky to figure out immediately, and now I've forgotten most
> of what I did find out. I do remember that it didn't look much like
> a buffer overrun, but I don't have very high confidence in that.
If it's reproducible and rel-eng is hosed with more important work, is
this worth just handing off to Sun? It *is* kind of their job to fix
bugs in their OS. (Admittedly, if we do, it will probably be months
before we see any kind of fix out of them.)
-wrong mike
