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Aittvax.150 net.v7-bugs,net.4bsd-bugs utzoo!decvax!ittvax!swatt Wed Dec 2 12:03:34 1981 fix to fix to uucp bug

This is a correction to ittvax.149, which reported a fix to UUCP. I confess Art Feather was the one who made the patch and tested it; I reported the bug and the fix without having recompiled and tested (for shame, for shame). As a result, an editing error leaving in an extra ')' in my copy of the change never got caught.

I won't go through the executable patch procedure again but in anlwrk.c, on or around line 67 which in the distribution reads:

if (listp == NULL || *listp == NULL || listp > (list + LLEN)

should read:

if (listp == NULL || listp >= &list[LLEN] || *listp == NULL

instead of:

if (listp == NULL || *listp == NULL || listp >= &list[LLEN])

as the earlier news article stated.

Thanks to duke!trt who suggested the evaluation order change and wolfvax!root who pointed out the parenthesis error. The present evaluation order is ``safe'' but certainly not clear thinking.

Sorry for the earlier bum steer.

- Alan S. Watt (decvax!ittvax!swatt)

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