Re: [leafnode-list] no X-Posts with 2.0b8_ma-pre3-WIP-post-20010427-3

[Matthias Andree <ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Raymond Scholz <rscholz@xxxxxx> writes:

> 'vening!
> 
> leafnode 2.0b8_ma-pre3-WIP-post-20010427-3
> 
> Apparently, this version does not accept X-Posts.

No, it crashes because of the leading space (it gives free() a pointer
it has modified after obtaining it from strdup), this patch fixes this
particular crash, but you'd better fix your newsreader:

--- localutil.c	2001/04/25 11:21:19	1.7.2.6
+++ localutil.c	2001/05/04 08:52:01
@@ -152,10 +152,10 @@
  */
 int islocal(const char *grouplist)
 {
-    char *p, *q;
+    char *p, *q, *g;
     int retval = TRUE;		/* assume that all groups are local */
 
-    p = strdup(grouplist);
+    p = g = strdup(grouplist);
     do {
 	while (isspace((unsigned char) *p))
 	    p++;
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
 	    retval = FALSE;
 	p = q;
     } while (p && *p && retval);
-    free(p);
+    free(g);
     return retval;
 }



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Matthias Andree

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