[marillat at debian.org: Bug#178673: inn2-inews: rnews is broken]

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Marco d'Itri wrote:

> #7  0x0ff0f968 in fgets () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #8  0x10001f40 in Process (article=0xff <Address 0xff out of bounds>)
>     at rnews.c:308
> #9  0x100021ec in ReadRemainder (fd=8043, first=0 '\0', second=0 '\0')
>     at rnews.c:387
> #10 0x100024a8 in UnpackOne (fdp=0x7ffff938, countp=0x7ffff93c) at rnews.c:498
> #11 0x10003364 in main (ac=0, av=0x7ffff9c8) at rnews.c:923

Ho ho.  So it's gotten to the fgets() here:

    /* Send the article to the server. */
    if (fwrite(wirefmt, length, 1, ToServer) != 1) {
        free(wirefmt);
        sysnotice("cant sendarticle");
        return false;
    }
    free(wirefmt);

    /* Process server reply code. */
    if (fgets(buff, sizeof buff, FromServer) == NULL) {

And blocks waiting for the server reply, I think because we forgot to 
flush after the fwrite() above.

Do I win?

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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org