Debian bug report logs - #1741, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1741: getservbyport doesn't work
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From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
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Package: libc
Version: 4.6.27

chiark:~> cat t.c
#include <netdb.h>
int main(void) {
  printf("%s\n",getservbyport(23,"tcp")->s_name);
  return 0;
}
chiark:~> gcc t.c
chiark:~> ./a.out
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
chiark:~> gcc -g t.c
chiark:~> gdb a.out
GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
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GDB 4.14 (i486-debian-linux), Copyright 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc...
(gdb) print getservbyport(23,"tcp")
You can't do that without a process to debug
(gdb) run
Starting program: /u/ijackson/a.out

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x109d in main () at t.c:3
3         printf("%s\n",getservbyport(23,"tcp")->s_name);
(gdb) print getservbyport(23,"tcp")
$1 = (struct servent *) 0x0
(gdb)

getservbyport is returning NULL inappropriately, so the test program
dereferences zero and dumps core.

On a SunOS4 machine:
grus:~/junk> ./a.out
telnet
grus:~/junk>

Ian.

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Bug#1741: Acknowledgement (was: getservbyport doesn't work)
In-Reply-To: <m0t7RKn-0002aNC@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
References: <m0t7RKn-0002aNC@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>

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