Hi,
this has probably been reported before, but I wanted to send in just in cas=
e.
I fixed two of the problems with modutils-2.1.121:
* modinfo ran out of memory doing an infinite loop
* insmod spend it's time in an infinte loop parsing the same NULL argument
again and again
--- modutils-2.1.121/insmod/insmod.c.orig Mon Sep 14 20:55:17 1998
+++ modutils-2.1.121/insmod/insmod.c Mon Apr 12 12:59:57 1999
@@ -926,14 +926,14 @@
static int
new_process_module_arguments(struct obj_file *f, int argc, char **argv)
{
- while (argc > 0)
+ while (argc-- > 0)
{
char *p, *q, *key;
struct obj_symbol *sym;
char *contents, *loc;
int min, max, n;
=20
- p =3D *argv;
+ p =3D *argv++;
if ((q =3D strchr(p, '=3D')) =3D=3D NULL)
continue;
=20
@@ -1156,7 +1156,6 @@
return 0;
}
=20
- argc--, argv++;
}
=20
return 1;
--- modutils-2.1.121/insmod/modinfo.c.orig Mon Sep 14 20:55:28 1998
+++ modutils-2.1.121/insmod/modinfo.c Mon Apr 12 11:47:34 1999
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@
error_file =3D "modinfo";
=20
while (optind < argc)
- show_module_info(argv[optind], fmtstr, do_parameters);
+ show_module_info(argv[optind++], fmtstr, do_parameters);
=20
return 0;
}
Regards,
--=20
Dipl.Phys. Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de> [Wuppertal, FRG]
Plasma physics, high perf. computing [Linux-ix86,-axp, DUX]
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