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From: Adam David <adam@veda.is>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/lib/libreadline display.c
To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 19:24:30 +0000 ()
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In-Reply-To: <199505221747.KAA05201@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at May 22, 95 10:47:01 am
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> >   Modified:    gnu/lib/libreadline  display.c
> >   Log:
> >   eliminate coredump for readline(NULL) case
> 
> Did I miss a message about code freeze being lifted??? 

Bugfix only, as explicitly permitted by freefall's motd.

> A library is defanitly a critical place to be patching.

There is no change of interface, only an advertised functionality
that dumped core instead of the expected behaviour.

> Reviewd by: ??????

Is this necessary for a trivial bugfix?

old: strlen(local_prompt)
new: local_prompt ? strlen(local_prompt) : 0

local_prompt == NULL  is a valid state, as empty prompts may be represented
as either "" or NULL in the rest of the code.

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Adam David <adam@veda.is>