ls -l dumps core

[Bob Green]

In article <1991Jan16.013303.15525 at cs.ubc.ca>, buchanan at cs.ubc.ca (John (juancho) buchanan) writes:
|> If a file belongs to a user whose id is not defined in the passwd file a
|> ls -l will dump core.  This is a BUG which was introduced with 3.3.1  It
|> worked under 3.2.1 and it works on our suns.  
|> 
|> We are running yellow pages (oops sorry that's NIS)
|> and nfs if that makes any difference.


This was found to be a NULL pointer and fixed in 4D1-3.3.2.  Since it was not
in a shared library the change affects 20MB of binaries.  In any case, 4D1-3.3.2
and/or fixing the password file will resolve the problem.

Bob Green
Silicon Graphics