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Date:      Mon, 8 Apr 1996 12:50:53 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: usr.bin/xinstall derefs null pointer
Message-ID:  <199604081050.MAA04884@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199604080408.AAA04024@whizzo.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at Apr 8, 96 00:08:33 am

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As Louis A. Mamakos wrote:

> If you invoke the new and improved install(1) with the
> ALLOW_NUMERIC_IDS feature, and don't specify an owner or group, it
> dereferences a null pointer.  The calls to resolve_uid() and
> resolve_gid() need to be protected.  This seems to have gone in
> recently in:

Thanks.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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