inews segv

[Kenichi Okada]

Hi,

I use inn-CURRENT-20021009.tar.gz on Solaris 9.
inews does not work correctly.
If I set an environment variable "NAME", inews do work correctly.
Why ?

% gdb ./inews
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(gdb) run < hoge
Starting program: /home/okada/compile/inn-CURRENT-20021009/frontends/inews < hoge

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xff132ea8 in strlen () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
(gdb) bt
#0  0xff132ea8 in strlen () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
#1  0x00014854 in concat (first=0x33188 "news") at concat.c:51
#2  0x0001325c in FormatUserName (pwp=0x33164, 
    node=0x33e60 "news.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp") at inews.c:495
#3  0x000133b0 in ProcessHeaders (AddOrg=true, linecount=4, pwp=0x33164)
    at inews.c:546
#4  0x000141f4 in main (ac=0, av=0x36aa0) at inews.c:1012
(gdb) up
#1  0x00014854 in concat (first=0x33188 "news") at concat.c:51
51              length += strlen(string);
(gdb) list
46          size_t length = 0;
47      
48          /* Find the total memory required. */
49          va_start(args, first);
50          for (string = first; string != NULL; VA_NEXT(string, const char *))
51              length += strlen(string);
52          va_end(args);
53          length++;
54      
55          /* Create the string.  Doing the copy ourselves avoids useless string
(gdb) print string
$1 = 0x33e60 "news.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp"
(gdb) up
#2  0x0001325c in FormatUserName (pwp=0x33164, 
    node=0x33e60 "news.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp") at inews.c:495
495             buff = concat(pwp->pw_name, "@", node);
(gdb) list
490     
491         out = TrimSpaces(outbuff);
492         if (out[0])
493             buff = concat(pwp->pw_name, "@", node, " (", out, ")", (char *) 0);
494         else
495             buff = concat(pwp->pw_name, "@", node);
496         return buff;
497     }
498     
499     
(gdb) print node
$2 = 0x33e60 "news.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp"
(gdb) print pwp->pw_name
$3 = 0x33188 "news"

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Kenichi Okada
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