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Subject: Re: majordomo under OSF/1, memory fault
From: "John P. Rouillard" <rouilj @ cs . umb . edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 09:42:58 -0400
To: Jukka Pontinen <Jukka . Pontinen @ metla . fi>
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Sep 1994 07:39:25 +0300." <199409140439.HAA16980@pihlaja.metla.fi>


In message <199409140439.HAA16980@pihlaja.metla.fi>,
Jukka Pontinen writes:

>>     As far as I know, there is one running perl 5 installation, based on
>>     1.92 of majordomo, but there were a few of changes that had to be
>>     made, and I don't have the patches yet. Also this person was adding
>>     functionality as he went along so it muddies the waters yet a bit
>>     more.  As far as I know there are no OSF/1 installations. All 4.x
>>     versions of perl coredump when running majordomo.
>
>	I've traced the core dump down to a few lines in
>	majordomo.pl (1.92). 
>	
>	Just grep '/@' majordomo.pl and escape the at-signs (@ -> \@). 
>	After these corrections majordomo works fine. 
>
>	$taint_list =| s/\@.*$//;
>	      @addr1 = split(/\@/, $a1[0]);
>	      @addr2 = split(/\@/, $a2[0]);
>
>	This is a perl 4.036 problem on OSF/1. 

This patch will be in majordomo 1.93. Thanks very much for your effort
in tracking this down.

				-- John
John Rouillard

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