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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 11:26:50 -0700
From: "Mark G. M. O'Lear" <Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU>
Organization: University of Colorado
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Subject: Bug in xlockmore-2.11b.tgz
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Hi,

I noticed that xlock will generate a floating point exception
error and die occasionally.  I know that if you have the flame
mode (either by -mode random, or -mode flame) up, you can just
hit <RETURN> enough times (usually 10 or so) and it will die
with a floating point exception error (not real good for
security.)  I think that it will do this on other modes, but
I haven't verified it.  I have only noticed it doing this when it
generates a new pattern, not just running the old pattern
over and over again.

Is there any way to do a -mode random and add a flag to skip
certain modes like flame? (not just for this reason)

I got xlockmore-2.11b.tgz from the packages-2.1 directory.
I am using FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE with DES/Kerberos installed.

Mark

Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU