4.3 inetd bug
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Wed Apr 5 04:53:31 AEST 1989
In article <2682 at cuuxb.ATT.COM> bsteve at cuuxb.ATT.COM (Netnews Administrator) writes:
- The expression and assignment on line 411 of src/etc/inetd.c of 4.3
- results in an ambiguous assignment.
- sep->se_wait = strcmp(arg, "wait") == 0;
- The result is that specifications for inetd to wait for daemons fail
- with certain compilers and on various machine architectures, always
- assigning sep->se_wait to be 0.
Harumph. What exactly is supposed to be the problem with this?
It is perfectly unambiguous and so far as I can see, correct.
That's not to say that inetd doesn't have bugs, just that this
isn't one of them.
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