SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386

[Conor P. Cahill]

jdeitch at jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch) writes:
>One quick question though,
>  I tried to fix the problem temporarily by setting UAREARW to 0 as
>was posted.  I rebult the kernel and all was well, until cnews tried
>to run.  I got a core dump from sendbatches.  Also the dfspace utility

This is because when you set UAREAW to 0 the floating point emulator won't 
work.  If you don't have a floating poing co-processor, any floating point
operations will cause a core dump.

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