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Date:      Sun, 3 Nov 1996 15:17:25 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-gnu@freefall.freebsd.org, sprice@HiWAAY.net
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/gnu/usr.bin/dc dc.c
Message-ID:  <199611030417.PAA05261@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>   Modified:    gnu/usr.bin/dc  dc.c
>>   Log:
>>   Don't allow filenames specified on the commandline
>>   to be directories.
>> 
>>   Revision  Changes    Path
>>   1.4       +8 -1      src/gnu/usr.bin/dc/dc.c
>
>Ha!  This is the last time that 'dc ..' dumps core for
>me because of a SIGBUS error.  It won't make be type any
>slower or make me a better typer for that matter, but it
>will cut down my frustration level a few notches. :)

I don't approve.  Directories just contain data from the
point of view of dc, and the bug is that it crashes for
some data.

`cat .. | dc' failed correctly for all the ".."s that I
tried.

Bruce



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