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<HR><H2>Re: [COLD] Re: Crashes</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wed Jun  5 12:35:01 1996
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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:15:18 -0600 (MDT)
From: Brandon Gillespie &lt;brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com&gt;
To: Dancer &lt;root@thelbane.brisnet.org.au&gt;
cc: coldstuff@cold.org
In-Reply-To: &lt;m0uRCqW-0000ESC@thelbane.brisnet.org.au&gt;

On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Dancer wrote:
&gt; Since patching the server to p6, I've been getting fairly frequent
&gt; crashes. I've got minimal postmortem info, but it seems that strdup() 
&gt; 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
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