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From: Frank Kardel <Frank.Kardel@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Message-Id: <199402111326.AA24390@faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Subject: Re: Beep, beep, beep
To: Mills@udel.edu
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 14:26:25 MET
Cc: Frank.Kardel@informatik.uni-erlangen.de,
Paul_Vixie@corpmis.sjc.hw.sony.com, Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk
In-Reply-To: <9402101138.aa10259@huey.udel.edu>; from "Mills@udel.edu" at Feb 10, 94 11:38 am
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> Frank,
> In the latest xntp3.3zz.tar.Z the Ultrix kernel finds joy of clock.
> (Whew).
Ok, I just dug out an old allocation failure in xntpdc. While
reading respones the input buffer might be realloced(and MOVED) without
telling the rest of the system. This was fatal when stdio needed a
buffer for non terminal operation. Net result was confused output.
Ok, here ist the patch:
===================================================================
RCS file: /src/NTP/REPOSITORY/v3/xntpdc/ntpdc.c,v
retrieving revision 3.17
diff -c -r3.17 xntpdc/ntpdc.c
*** xntpdc/ntpdc.c:3.17 1994/01/28 14:07:13
--- xntpdc/ntpdc.c 1994/02/11 13:20:56
***************
*** 598,605 ****
/*
* So far, so good. Copy this data into the output array.
*/
! if ((datap + datasize) > (pktdata + pktdatasize))
growpktdata();
memmove(datap, (char *)rpkt.data, datasize);
datap += datasize;
if (firstpkt) {
--- 598,609 ----
/*
* So far, so good. Copy this data into the output array.
*/
! if ((datap + datasize) > (pktdata + pktdatasize)) {
! int offset = datap - pktdata;
growpktdata();
+ *rdata = pktdata; /* might have been realloced ! */
+ datap = pktdata + offset;
+ }
memmove(datap, (char *)rpkt.data, datasize);
datap += datasize;
if (firstpkt) {
--
Frank Kardel (kardel@informatik.uni-erlangen.de)
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