Aucbvax.5395
net.2bsd-bugs
utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!cbosg!ihnss!ucbvax!dist2
Sun Dec  6 02:56:52 1981
FIXED:  bugs in src/diff/diff{dir,reg}.c
       There appear to be two bugs in the 2.8BSD diff source.
       In diffdir.c a cast to unsigned is needed in a malloc call and
       in diffreg.c a fprintf call needs a stream argument.

Quite right.  The necessary changes (as described previously) are:

       diff src/diff/diffdir.c.old src/diff/diffdir.c
       188c188
               dp = (struct direct *)malloc((unsigned)stb.st_size + sizeof (struct direct));

       diff src/diff/diffreg.c.old src/diff/diffreg.c
       170c170
                       fprintf(stderr, "diff: ");

These changes are necessary on tapes written before 12/5/81.  The latter
bug (in diffreg) exists in 4.1BSD as well.

                       Carl

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