Bug#356858: xdm and getifaddrs()

["Jan C. Nordholz" <jckn@gmx.net>]

package xdm
severity 356858 wishlist
thankyou

Hi,

during yesterday's upgrade (1.0.4) I noticed that the bug
has silently disappeared. In retrospect I find it very
strange that xdm segfaulted where it did, sizeof() being
a compile-time operator... or it segfaulted inside
ConvertAddr(), but that bug is claimed to have been fixed
Feb 24 (IIRC; mentioned in the upstream changelog), and I
remember quite clearly tracing xdm's execution in the debugger...

Hm, whatever the cause for the segfaults may have been,
it's gone. I still think my non-null test should be inserted,
just to prevent possible future mistakes - it's rather non-trivial
to see why ifa_addr==NULL can't proceed beyond auth.c:738... ;-)
but that's a wishlist bug.


Regards,

Jan

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Jan C. Nordholz
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