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Re: [COLD] Re: Crashes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wed Jun 5 12:35:01 1996 )

Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:15:18 -0600 (MDT)
From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com>
To: Dancer <root@thelbane.brisnet.org.au>
cc: coldstuff@cold.org
In-Reply-To: <m0uRCqW-0000ESC@thelbane.brisnet.org.au>

On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Dancer wrote:
> Since patching the server to p6, I've been getting fairly frequent
> crashes. I've got minimal postmortem info, but it seems that strdup() 
> is being passed a NULL pointer fairly often. Anyone else getting this?

p7 fixes the problem, if you grab the .patch it is a simple fix.  
Basically I called a function with '0' in $string.capitalize() instead of 
args[0].u.str :)

-Brandon Gillespie