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Date:      Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:04:59 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        gary.jennejohn@freenet.de, garyj@jennejohn.org
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: weird error with nmh
Message-ID:  <20070625.160459.-1331210894.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070624191345.7f08c10e.garyj@jennejohn.org>
References:  <20070624191345.7f08c10e.garyj@jennejohn.org>

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In message: <20070624191345.7f08c10e.garyj@jennejohn.org>
            Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> writes:
: I'm using exmh with nmh on a freshly installed AMD64-current:
: 	7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #4: Sat Jun 23 19:29:01 CEST
: 2007
: 
: nmh uses its own version of strcasecmp() because in many cases it
: passes NULL pointers to it and must check for that.
: 
: However, somehow the version in libc gets used rather than the version
: from nmh and calling e.g. repl results in a SIGSEGV because the NULL
: pointer is dereferenced.
: 
: I was forced to rename the routine to nmhstrcasecmp() all over the
: place. After that repl works.
: 
: My question - why isn't the version in nmh overriding the version in
: libc? Am I misunderstanding something here?

I see exactly this too...

Warner



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