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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 16:04:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: bin/15325: nroff -man bombs out with more than eight authors *total*
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>Number:         15325
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       nroff -man bombs out with more than eight authors *total*
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Dec  6 16:10:01 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Archie Cobbs
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Whistle Communications, Inc.
>Environment:

	Happens in both -current and -stable as of Mon Dec  6 16:01:39 PST 1999

>Description:

	To have a reference to an article, RFC, etc. in a man page
	you're supposed to do this (right?):

	.Rs
	.%A S. Hanks
	.%A T. Li
	.%A D. Farinacci
	.%A P. Traina
	.%T "Generic Routing Encapsulation over IPv4 networks"
	.%O RFC 1702
	.Re

	The bug is that if you 'nroff -man' this and you have more
	than 8 authors total IN ALL REFERENCES then nroff bombs out
	into some kind of infinite loop, even if no single reference
	has 8 authors.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Store this sample man page in a file called 'xx' and
	then run 'nroff -man xx':

	.Dd November 29, 1999
	.Dt NG_PPTPGRE 8
	.Os FreeBSD
	.Sh NAME
	.Nm ng_pptpgre
	.Nd PPP protocol netgraph node type
	.Sh SYNOPSIS
	.Fd #include <netgraph/ng_pptpgre.h>
	.Sh DESCRIPTION
	The
	.Nm pptpgre
	node type performs Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) over IP
	for the PPTP protocol as specified by RFC 2637.  This involves packet
	encapsulation, sequencing, acknowlegement, and an adaptive timeout
	sliding window mechanism.  This node type does not handle any of
	the TCP control protocol or call negotiation defined by PPTP.
	.Sh SEE ALSO
	.Xr netgraph 4 ,
	.Xr ng_ksocket 8 ,
	.Xr ng_ppp 8 ,
	.Xr ngctl 8 .
	.Rs
	.%A K. Hamzeh
	.%A G. Pall
	.%A W. Verthein
	.%A J. Taarud
	.%A W. Little
	.%A G. Zorn
	.%T "Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)"
	.%O RFC 2637
	.Re
	.Rs
	.%A S. Hanks
	.%A T. Li
	.%A D. Farinacci
	.%A P. Traina
	.%T "Generic Routing Encapsulation over IPv4 networks"
	.%O RFC 1702
	.Re
	.Sh AUTHOR
	Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>

>Fix:
	
	Unknown.


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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