| Summary: | options structure considered harmful | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Component: | tmpwatch | Assignee: | Preston Brown <pbrown> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2000-01-18 16:59:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
fixed in next release. |
The following mail appeared on devel-list. I am including it here because it exhibits a bug and part of the fix. Notice the spelling of the option "mtiem" should be "mtime". To: redhat-devel-list Subject: tmpwatch 2.0 patch From: Vandoorselaere Yoann <yoann> Date: 15 Dec 1999 18:17:18 +0100 (Wed 12:17 EST) Hi, When passing an unknow option to tmpwatch it sigsegv, this is due to the struct options used by getopt_long not terminated by NULL; Here is the patch : --- tmpwatch.c.orig Wed Dec 15 16:26:00 1999 +++ tmpwatch.c Wed Dec 15 16:26:31 1999 @@ -271,6 +271,7 @@ { "quiet", 0, 0, 'q' }, { "atime", 0, 0, GETOPT_ATIME }, { "mtiem", 0, 0, GETOPT_MTIME }, + { 0, 0, 0, 0 } }; if (argc == 1) usage(); see you -- -- Yoann, http://www.security-addict.org