Re: [leafnode-list] Newsq problems on FreeBSD

["Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" <insane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It being T-day I am just reading mail.. Will sit down later with this to
see what info I can dig up. 

Like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. 
Ron

On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Joerg Dietrich was heard blurting out:

> On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 11:38:10AM +0100, Cornelius Krasel wrote:
> > Here is the output of the make concerning newsq:
> > 
> > /newsq.c: In function `main':
> > /newsq.c:50: warning: long unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 3)
> 
> Same as on HP/UX.
> 
> > Here is what the outpu looks like when you run newsq:
> > 
> > insane-the> ./newsq
> > 25671-943312396-1:      608 bytes, spooled (null)       From: Mon Nov 22 15:13:16 1999
> > 
> >         Ngrp: insane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ron Rosson)
> >         Subj: sdnet.test
> > 
> > ----- End of forwarded message from Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson -----
> > 
> > What strikes me as particularly odd is the odd reference to a nullpointer
> 
> This is arcane, to say the least. A patch which remedies the warning on
> HP/UX is attached (as suggested by Mathias Andree). However, newsq works
> on HP/UX, even without this patch.
> 	Ron, could you test, if this patch gives you a working newsq? If
> not, could you please compile with -pedantic and tell us what the output
> is. It also could be helpful to know which compiler you are using; are
> you sure you have the appropriate binutils (if gcc)? Could you also
> compile without -O flags? Is there a bug list for your libc? 
> 	Any other suggestions?
> 
> Happy thanksgiving,
> 	Jo:rg 
> 
> -- 
> Fortune cookie of the day:
> "The sixties were good to you, weren't they?"
> -- George Carlin

> [-- mutt.octet.filter file type: "gzip compressed data, deflated, original filename, last modified: Wed Nov 24 21:44:57 1999, max compression, os: Unix" --]
> 
> --- newsq.c.orig	Sun Nov 21 10:48:21 1999
> +++ newsq.c	Thu Nov 25 00:03:31 1999
> @@ -41,12 +41,13 @@
>  	else if ( S_ISREG( st.st_mode ) ) {
>  	    f = fopen( de->d_name, "r" );
>  	    if ( f ) {
> -		printf("%s: %8lu bytes, spooled %s\tFrom: %-.66s\n"
> +		printf("%s: %8li bytes, spooled %s\tFrom: %-.66s\n"
>  			"\tNgrp: %-.66s\n\tSubj: %-.66s\n",
> -			de->d_name, st.st_size, ctime(&st.st_mtime),
> -			fgetheader( f, "From:" ),
> -			fgetheader( f, "Newsgroups:" ),
> -			fgetheader( f, "Subject:") );
> +		       de->d_name, (long int) st.st_size, 
> +		       ctime(&st.st_mtime),
> +		       fgetheader( f, "From:" ),
> +		       fgetheader( f, "Newsgroups:" ),
> +		       fgetheader( f, "Subject:") );
>  		fclose(f);
>  	    }
>  	    else


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