to stderr.
The existing error message ("I don't know what xxx means") is
unchanged, as it is stylisticly in keeping with the light-hearted
nature of the program, and is also more likely to be accurate than the
"no such acronym" error message proposed in 8201.
simplifying the code and improving its portability. It also adds a
delay option from OpenBSD, to allow reasonable speed display on fast
terminals, adds use of const, and fixes signal handling and use of
errx() where appropriate.
Patch supplied in PR 6661 by Joseph Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>.
significantly simplifying the code and improving its portability. It
also adds a delay option from OpenBSD to make the display go at a
useful speed on fast terminals, and fixes signal handling to make it
reliable.
Patch supplied by Joseph Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> in PR 6659.
objects in its header file, and to add corresponding definitions to
init.c accordingly. (See the C standard - relying on linker commons
where there are multiple uninitialised declarations of an object in
the program traditionally works on Unix, but is not standard C.)
The patch also removes a bit-rotten code fragment under #ifdef
OLDSTUFF.
Patch submitted in PR 8105 by Joseph Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
Morse code standards to the bcd(6) manpage (which also serves as the
manpages ppt(6) and morse(6)).
(The only one of these standards I have read is the ECMA-10 paper tape
standard, which is also probably the least readily available, since
ECMA don't supply copies of obsolete standards, though they will
supply printed copies of any or all of their current standards at no
charge.)
Patch submitted in PR 8102 by Joseph Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
unsigned char rather than char for values that end up passed to
isascii() and also used as array indices.
Patch submitted by Joseph Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> in PR 8093.
with variations in EINTR behaviour, but the optimisation of using the
BSD version where the SYSV version isn't needed is insignificant.
This patch therefore simplifies the code by making there be just one
version, a more paranoid (about EOF when errno is already EINTR)
version of the SYSV code. Since the BSD/SYSV defines are mainly used
to control whether BSD timers are used, this helps where BSD timers
but SYSV EINTR handling are wanted.
Patch supplied in PR 8091 by Joseph Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
allowing the user to choose the name of the save file and specify it
on the command line when restoring. It also eliminates a buffer
overrun in determining the path to the save file, and any particular
arbitrary limit on the name length. In the name of a tidier home
directory, the default name is changed from "Bstar" to ".Bstar".
Patch supplied in PR 8085 by Joseph Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
Minor modification (s/startup/filename/ in initialize()) by me.
backgammon(6). The use of write(2) for the message may seem odd, but
is used in another place in this game. (Actually, a lot of
backgammon(6) could do with being substantially cleaned up.)
Patch submitted in PR 8080 by Joseph Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
being defined more than once incorrectly checks for `height' having
been previously defined instead.
Patch submitted in PR 8038 by Joseph Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
open the score file at the start and then drop all setgid privileges
while keeping a (close-on-exec) file descriptor open to it. In order
to allow this the static data files have to be made world readable.
In addition a potential buffer overrun with corrupted score files is
avoided by more careful use of scanf (note that SCORE_SCANF_FMT is
defined alongside the definition of the relevant structure).
Submitted in PR 8015 by Joseph Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
adventure(6). The handling of this variable is somewhat confusing,
since it is used for two different purposes (controlling the time
required before a saved game can be restored, and controlling various
aspects of dwarf behaviour); in fact, it is also declared twice in
hdr.h. Except possibly when saving a game fails, these uses can never
interfere; when used for controlling dwarf behaviour, we always have
saved == -1. This can be better understood with reference to the
original PDP-10 FORTRAN source (URL in patch, since hdr.h references
the comments of the FORTRAN as still relevant to this version) of
which the C version is a direct translation: the wrong value for
`saved' meant that someone was cheating and had bypassed normal
initialisation. Saving was done by halting and telling the user to
save their core image, so the question of carrying on after saving
failed to open the output file did not arise.
This patch separates the uses of `saved' into uses of two separate
variables.
Closes PR 8005 by Joseph Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
The detailed behaviour follows POSIX.2. A similar patch for wump(6)
which was accepted is in bin/6699. Fish does not need any setgid
privileges it gets from dm, so this patch also moves the gid resetting
earlier.
Reported in PR 7986 by Joseph Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
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