Safe coding practices (was Re: Bug in users command)

[Tim McDaniel]

torek at h2opolo.ee.lbl.gov (who CALLS himself Chris Torek) writes:
           int
           fgetline(FILE *stream, int *len);
...
           while ((p = fgetline(inf)) != NULL)

Notice the "int" return code and the argument count problem.  Chris
Torek making TWO errors in a SINGLE posting (about a routine He designed
and wrote) is patently impossible.  torek at h2opolo.ee.lbl.gov is
therefore NOT The REAL Chris Torek, but a shameless forger.

It's obvious what happened.  Someone saw Chris Torek's announcement
that He was off the net temporarily and didn't know His future e-mail
address.  This person waited a plausible amount of time, and then
posted this crude forgery.  The "oops, bug in the man page" followup
didn't fool me one little bit.

I'm writing to the system administrators at ee.lbl.gov to get this
dastardly imposter fired immediately, and (if possible) brought up on
criminal charges.

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