Bug#1764: bin/kill segfaults
On Wed, 25 Oct 1995 15:40:09 +1000 (EST), Herbert Xu
<herbert@greathan.apana.org.au> wrote:
>Package: bsdutils
>Version: 1.3-1
>
>It is trivial to make /bin/kill segfault:
>$ /bin/kill -l
>INT QUIT ILL TRAP ABRT UNUSED FPE KILL USR1 SEGV USR2 PIPE ALRM TERM STKFLT CHLD
>Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
>The appended patch fixes the bug. I suspect the person who wrote the code
>has had some bad memories about Pascal :)
>
>PS NSIG is the largest valid signal number + 1.
[...patch snipped...]
The appended patch was very helpful, thanks.
A new kill, hopefully with the bugs fixed, is in bsdutuils-1.4-1,
which I am about to upload to the uk upload site.
Austin
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