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Date:      Fri, 30 Aug 1996 07:55:02 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com (Thomas David Rivers)
Subject:   Re: compress will now get an infinite loop on some types of bad input...
Message-ID:  <199608300555.HAA27974@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199608290322.XAA03028@lakes.water.net> from Thomas David Rivers at "Aug 28, 96 11:22:25 pm"

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As Thomas David Rivers wrote:

>  I'm not sure who to send this to; suggestions?
> Should I just do a send-pr with the corrupted input?

No, compile with -g, send it a SIGQUIT next time it happens, and look
at the coredump with gdb.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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