[5552] in testers
Re: xss-button segfaults
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jun 23 17:02:33 2003
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:02:29 -0400
Message-Id: <200306232102.h5NL2TSP032266@error-messages.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex Rolfe <arolfe@MIT.EDU>
CC: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <200306121849.h5CInc7O002768@metacircular-evaluator.mit.edu>
> /usr/athena/bin/xss-button reliably segfaults for me the first time
> (and only the first time during a login session) on 9.2 linux
> machines. It didn't do this on 9.1 linux machines; I haven't tried
> it on any 9.2 sun machines.
There was a simple off-by-one error in the code; it will be fixed in
the next patch release.
(The bug has been there for a long time; it just wasn't manifesting
under most conditions.)
