X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/blobdiff_plain/e7f0dbf0856b7eb1f97f4c95fe39497b1ca97998..dfacc915824a819be2e33cdb2a34d1d1de27fc34:/ChangeLog diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index b03b6e6b..c15f9107 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,13 +1,36 @@ +Wed Apr 05 21:09:28 2000 Dan Harkless + + * Applied Eric Schnoebelen 's mhshowsbr.c patch + fixing apparent bugs in Dan Winship's new security quoting code: + + Since upgrading, I've been getting the following errors + while attempting to process some MIME messages: + + (1) Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string + exit 2 + + and: + + (2) line 1/10 (END)Segmentation fault (core dumped) + + (2) appears to be due to the testing of an unset pointer in + mhshowsbr.c:show_multi_aux(). (1) appears to be caused by + mis-quoting a filename being handed to the shell in + mhshowsbr.c:show_content_aux(). + + Resolving the pointer reference issue in + mhshowsbr.c:show_multi_aux() turned up a similar mis-quoting + problem in the routine. + Tue Mar 28 16:17:39 2000 Doug Morris - * applied Todd Miller's patch to - dropsbr.c to prevent core dumping on packf. Here's the note - from his message: + * Applied Todd.Miller@courtesan.com's patch to dropsbr.c to + prevent core dumping on packf. Here's the note from his message: - Since sizeof(buffer) == sizeof(tmpbuffer) packf will dump - core on a file w/o a From line with a line >= BUFSIZ. - I noticed this because I had a junk file in my mail - spool somehow. + Since sizeof(buffer) == sizeof(tmpbuffer) packf will dump + core on a file w/o a From line with a line >= BUFSIZ. + I noticed this because I had a junk file in my mail + spool somehow. Fri Mar 17 11:59:33 2000 Dan Harkless @@ -238,13 +261,18 @@ Fri Feb 04 12:29:12 2000 Dan Harkless * Whoever originally added the -help switch to all the commands got too cute and had the option itself print out as "-(help)" in - the -help output. I guess the idea was to make reference to the - fact that clearly you know about the -help option since you're - currently looking at its output. I think it's a bad idea to - overload the meaning of the parentheses, however -- they're + the -help output. One theory is that they were making reference + to the fact that clearly you know about the -help option since + you're currently looking at its output. I think it's a bad idea + to overload the meaning of the parentheses, however -- they're supposed to indicate what abbreviated prefix of the switch you're - allowed to specify. It doesn't make sense to show that you're - allowed to "abbreviate" the switch to its entire length. + allowed to specify. + + The other theory is that because you can say something like + "mhstore -" and get "mhstore: - ambiguous. It matches" followed + by the same list of switches you get with -help, they were saying + you can "sorta" abbreviate "-help" as "-". You don't get the + "Usage:" string, though, so it's not really the same thing. Thu Feb 03 17:52:01 2000 Dan Harkless @@ -255,8 +283,8 @@ Thu Feb 03 17:52:01 2000 Dan Harkless also makes "-kpop" a command line option, for users who would like to use both "kpop" and "pop". - Did no testing of the new features, as I don't have access to a - KPOP server. + Did no testing of the new features, as I don't have access to a + KPOP server. * Modified inc.man and msgchk.man to document Wesley's new -kpop.