tag 206141 + patch
thanks
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:49:31AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> When xdm cannot write to $HOME/.Xauthority, such as when the user is over
> quota,
> it tried to create a .Xauthority file in /tmp and use that.
> This breaks due to patch/002_xdm_fixes.diff
> In particular openFiles causes a segmentation violation.
>
> Towards the end of the patches openFile are the lines:
>
> + if (oldp)
> + *oldp = fopen (name, "r");
> + if (*oldp)
> + Debug ("open succeeded %s\n", name);
>
> if oldp is NULL, as it will be in this case, the
> if (*oldp)
> will dereference a NULL pointer - and BANG.Thanks very much for this bug report and analysis. I wish more bug reports against my packages were like yours. -- G. Branden Robinson | America is at that awkward stage. Debian GNU/Linux | It's too late to work within the [EMAIL PROTECTED] | system, but too early to shoot the http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | bastards. -- Claire Wolfe
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